Lieutenant General Fujino did not speak, however, silence was the best answer to the deputy chief's guess.

When it comes to the life and death of hundreds of imperial troops in an infantry brigade, no matter how bold the deputy chief of staff is, he does not dare to talk casually.

After a long time, Fujino made a decision: "The original order remains unchanged, immediately break through and retreat!" ”

"Defend the Songshan Pass, they will definitely be killed. Even if it lasts until dawn, there is not much left of a brigade. Although the breakthrough may be attacked by the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, no one can confirm that the new cavalry unit is lying in ambush nearby. Therefore, as long as they succeed in breaking through, they have a fifty percent chance of surviving! ”

Outside the garrison of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army, the third round of attack of the newly formed 4th Battalion was repulsed.

The battalion commander was just about to order the troops to continue the attack with anger, but Wang Ping decisively stopped him!

"Suspend offense...... This stronghold has been in operation for nearly three years, and there are two trenches outside the stronghold alone, and many semi-permanent fortifications have been built in the middle of the trenches. Unless there is mountain artillery, it is difficult to knock out these fire points with mortars and infantry guns in hand! ”

"If you don't kill these fire points, it will be impossible for the troops to rush up many times, and they will be sent to death in vain!"

"But our new fourth battalion is not equipped with mountain artillery!" The battalion commander replied helplessly.

Then he gritted his teeth and asked Wang Ping to fight: "Regiment commander, give me another chance, I will personally lead the team to assault, and I will definitely take the first line of defense of the Japanese army!" ”

Wang Ping scolded angrily: "How can you assault, use the lives of the soldiers to fill it?" ”

The battalion commander was stunned for a moment and lowered his head, Wang Ping said a word to his heart, and there was no reason to refute it at all.

At this time, Wang Ping spoke: "Cheer up, isn't it just that you can't rush up?" No big deal! ”

"You have to remember that our goal tonight is not to take this stronghold, but to kill and injure the little devils in the stronghold in large numbers. Even if it is dawn and there are planes to cover them, they will not dare to come and besiege us! ”

Jean "Didn't you notice that the soil under our feet was very soft?" ”

"Also, this is the plain, and the strongholds and positions defended by the devils do not have a terrain advantage, and the only thing they rely on is those semi-permanent firepower points above the ground and the pillbox turrets in the strongholds. If we make these points of fire useless, will we be able to get close to the devil's line and kill them! ”

"Trench Tunneling ......" Battalion Commander Li is a veteran who follows Wang Ping, and he has seen Wang Ping use this tactic to deal with little devils, and he reacted immediately!

"It's to dig trenches, digging directly to the front of the devil's position thirty meters. We used hand grenades, and at a distance of thirty meters, we could definitely throw the grenades at the devil's position. But the devil used a grenade, and there was no terrain advantage, so he threw the grenade to twenty-five meters in the sky. As long as we hide in the trenches, the devil's grenades can't help us. And the grenades we threw out can deal a devastating blow to the devils on the defensive line! Wang Ping frowned and analyzed.

Battalion Commander Li replied anxiously: "Good way, I will arrange for the troops to dig trenches~"

"Three companies in platoons, advancing forward in unison, can advance from 100 meters to 30 meters in a maximum of four hours!"

Without waiting for Wang Ping to speak, Battalion Commander Li rushed to the battlefield like the wind.

Wang Ping could only order to the commander of the guard company beside him: "All mortars, infantry guns, grenadiers, all ready for battle!" ”

"The devil artillery will definitely open fire to stop us from digging trenches, and we must suppress their artillery fire for me, at least hold it back!"

"Grenadier give me an eye on the devil grenadier~"

"Light and heavy machine guns, the remaining anti-aircraft machine guns of the air defense company, keep an eye on the devil's position. If they rush out and fight back, just kill me! ”

Everyone was staring at the battlefield, watching as the trenches extended little by little towards the Japanese positions.

A telegraph operator from the communications company suddenly rushed towards Wang Ping: "Regiment commander, battalion commander Rong is in a hurry!" ”

"The little devils in Songshankou have broken through again, and the troops are pursuing, but the devils are breaking through very quickly, and they are constantly dispatching troops to block them, and it is difficult to completely annihilate them, so I ask the regimental headquarters to transfer the cavalry battalion to make a detour back to the front of the devils to raid them and kill them!"

"Agreed, the original text of this telegram is forwarded to the cavalry battalion!" Wang Ping's brows were furrowed before he replied.

At the headquarters of the Japanese division in Linfen City, the eyes of the division commander Fujino kept staring at the sand table.

After connecting the battles for several days, he vaguely felt something, but when he stared at the sand table to confirm it, his mind went blank again.

As an excellent commander, he had a hunch that the new regiment was playing itself in this area again and again, and the purpose was definitely not to kill some imperial troops and take advantage of them, there must be other conspiracies.

However, without any intelligence support, he did not know what this conspiracy was.

At this moment, the deputy chief of staff hurriedly walked in, with a slight smile on his face, surely bringing some good news.

"Division commander, the Songshankou garrison successfully broke through, and a total of more than 600 people broke through."

"It's good to break through, as for whether you can get rid of the Eighth Route Army and successfully retreat in the end, it depends on God!" Lieutenant General Fujino's tense nerves also relaxed a lot.

With his eyes fixed on the sand table, he continued to ask, "What about the other two brigades?" How's it going? ”

The deputy chief of staff hurriedly replied: "The losses of the troops are great, but there is definitely no problem in holding out until dawn!" ”

"Yo Xi!" Lieutenant Fujino completely relaxed his tense nerves.

"As long as you hold on until dawn, the situation will be reversed!"

"Order the intelligence department, keep an eye on these exposed Eighth Route Army, and be sure to know where they are hiding after dawn, and then dispatch planes to bomb them, make them pay the price, and avenge the jade broken imperial army!"

"Let's arrange it right away!" The deputy chief of staff hastened to answer.

On the battlefield under the cover of night, a group of little devils carried weapons and torches, and marched along the highway in a hurry.

In the middle of the tense team, officers kept standing up and reminding.

"Speed up, the rearguard troops will not hold out for long. We finally rushed out, and we must not let the Eighth Route Army surround it again! ”

The captain who walked in the middle of the group, despite riding on his warhorse, still had a very anxious expression on his face.

"Sir, the gunfire behind us is getting weaker and weaker, and the rearguard troops will definitely not hold out for long. I suggest that all the lightly wounded be left behind, deployed on the spot, and continue to block the Eighth Route Army that may be chasing and killing! The adjutant next to him suggested with a nervous expression.

Although the captain was heartbroken, he still gritted his teeth and ordered: "You can ......"

"All the lightly wounded are left behind, leave them with plenty of ammunition! The others picked up the pace, and the march was still too slow now. Order the troops, except for weapons and ammunition, everything else is thrown away! ”

An hour later, the interrupted gunfire behind him resumed.

The captain of the devil brigade knew that this was the wounded he had left behind just now and fought with the Eighth Route Army's pursuit and killing troops.

The nervous look on the adjutant's face disappeared, and he replied with a sigh of relief: "We are six kilometers away from the blocking position arranged by the wounded, and the wounded can hold out for at least half an hour, and then the distance between us and the Eighth Route Army will be extended to ten kilometers." No matter how fast we are, it is impossible to catch up with us! ”

"Yo Xi, I can finally catch my breath!" The captain of the brigade said with a sigh of relief.

But he still reminded: "But we still can't relax, the speed of the march can't change, the farther away from the chasing troops, the safer we are!" ”

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