Company commander Zhang Yunshan's face looked a lot better, and with these seizures, he was finally able to give an explanation to the battalion commander.

Otherwise, if the battalion commander knew that five soldiers were directly killed during the attack because he underestimated the enemy, the battalion commander would definitely curse himself to death. With these seizures, the situation will certainly be much better, although there will also be scolding.

But the abundance of materials also brought a new problem to Zhang Yunshan, whether he had enough people to send the materials back.

After all, he still has a combat mission ahead, and it is impossible to leave too many troops to transport these supplies.

"Instructor, how many prisoners do we have!" Zhang Yunshan immediately asked.

"There were a lot of captives around the village, but there were very few in the stronghold, 42 in total! According to the weight of 30 catties per person, you can only take away more than 1,000 catties of materials! Wang Liang understood the hidden meaning of Zhang Yunshan's words, and replied helplessly.

"Then use the cart to transport the supplies!" Zhang Yunshan suddenly thought of something and replied with an affirmative face.

Wang Liang almost didn't believe his ears, and looked at Zhang Yunshan in a daze, and didn't react for a long time.

Zhang Yunshan hurriedly explained: "I also just thought that when we went out of the mountain, in order to fight the devil for a surprise attack, we chose to take the path as much as possible. Now that the battle has begun, there is no need to hide any longer. Since there is no need to hide, and there are no devils between here and our station, then what is there to be afraid of, just use the cart, the captured cart is not enough to let the puppet army carry it! ”

"I will leave the squad with the greatest losses, and leave another Czech-made, and cooperate with our baggage squad with a Czech-made, immediately escort the supplies and prisoners back to the station, hand them over to the instructor, and then rush to Xuzhuang with carts and mules and horses, and strive to take the Xuzhuang Japanese puppet army stronghold tonight, and empty the Xuzhuang stronghold!"

Wang nodded and acquiesced: "I think it's okay, by the way, I will leave a deputy platoon commander and command all the troops left behind!" ”

Just tonight, the Longshan stronghold in the other direction of Laiyuan City was also attacked.

Yan Song commanded the third company to take this stronghold in only one hour, completely annihilated a reinforced squad of the Japanese army, and captured most of the puppet army.

Because of the use of artillery, many weapons were blown up, but a lot of supplies and ammunition were still captured.

Like Zhang Yunshan, Yan Song left a combat squad and a baggage squad to escort prisoners and prisoners to the garrison, and then rushed to the next offensive target with the company's main force.

Two strongholds were breached in one night, although no direct information came back. However, the connection between the county seat and the two strongholds was broken, and the sound of explosions was faintly heard from the two strongholds, coupled with the strong attack power shown by the Eighth Route Army during this time, the Japanese army headquarters had already guessed eight or nine.

For Major General Ono, the news was like a resounding slap in the face to tell him that he had misjudged the Eighth Route Army two days earlier.

The Eighth Route Army did not lose its troops in the battle to attack the Xiaguan stronghold, and still had a strong attack capability. Otherwise, it would be impossible to take two of his strongholds in one night under the condition of dividing his troops.

But as the brigade commander, Ono's sanity was not received by the battalion commander because of this slap in the face.

When many staff officers of the headquarters contacted the troops to immediately send troops to reinforce these two bases, Ono decisively refused.

It's not that Ono doesn't care about the lives of more than a hundred imperial troops in the two strongholds, but he can't send troops out. Before the troops formed combat effectiveness, with these recruits in their hands, no matter how many people went out, it was a war merit for the Eighth Route Army.

In the end, Ono made the decision not to move. Then he ordered the Japanese intelligence system in Laiyuan to find out the true strength of the Eighth Route Army in the shortest possible time, and at the same time ordered the chief of staff to speed up the training of recruits, and in a maximum of five days, an infantry brigade that had begun to take on combat effectiveness must be reorganized!

The next day, the news that the two strongholds were occupied by the Eighth Route Army and evacuated really reached the Japanese army headquarters in Laiyuan City, and there was some simple information to the headquarters together.

"Brigade commander, it's a good thing we didn't send troops last night. Although the specific situation of the Eighth Route Army has not yet been clarified, it is not difficult to judge from this simple information that the Eighth Route Army attacking the two strongholds is the main force! They are armed with mortars, heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and a large number of light machine guns, and once we send out fewer reinforcements, with the combat effectiveness of these recruits, even if they are not wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, it will be a heavy loss! ”

"The general is wise!" A group of subordinates and staff officers immediately complimented.

Ono was not happy at all, the more than a hundred imperial troops lost in the two strongholds, if it was a new recruit just replenished by the military department, he would not be heartbroken at all. But these people are all veterans who have followed them all the way here, and any person can be a soldier in the mixed brigade. Now the loss of so many people at once directly means that the mixed brigade and regiment that he is forming has lost most of the officers of the infantry brigade.

At this time, a very bold idea suddenly popped up in Xiao Ye's mind: "The Eighth Route Army, which is divided into two routes, can take out its two strongholds in one night, so will they continue to attack tonight and destroy their two strongholds!" ”

Thinking that the possibility of this was more than eighty percent, Ono's forehead immediately broke out with a large number of beads of sweat due to nervousness.

After listening to Ono's speculation, the chief of staff was also anxious, and immediately affirmed: "Brigade commander, for the Eighth Route Army, now is an excellent opportunity to break through all the strongholds outside our city!" ”

"If I were the commander of the Eighth Route Army, I would definitely not let go of this opportunity. But for us, the loss of those strongholds will not only lose hundreds of elite imperial warriors, but also the foundation of the Laiyuan Garrison Brigade! ”

"Foundation, you use this word very well! The Eighth Route Army is too cunning, and a seemingly unrelated attack actually hides such a big conspiracy! Ono affirmed, with a calm face.

The chief of staff immediately proposed: "General, we must immediately determine whether the Eighth Route Army really has this conspiracy. If so, we'd rather give up those strongholds outside the city than let a few hundred imperial elites have another accident! ”

"Check, check right away. By this evening at the latest, the intelligence agencies must find out what I want, otherwise, military law is engaged! Ono ordered with a murderous face.

At this time, Wang Ping, who remained at the station, was taking the newly formed engineer platoon to inspect a trench that the prisoners had just dug up.

Because the Eighth Route Army has never had professional engineer talents, Wang Ping did not consider forming an engineer platoon when he first formed an independent battalion.

It wasn't until three days ago that after learning that one of the prisoners was a former engineer platoon commander of the Jinsui Army, Wang Ping immediately decided to make him the platoon commander and form an engineer platoon.

Because, if you want to build a huge fortification group on the mountain road of more than ten miles into the mountain, you will definitely not be able to rely on a group of laymen, you must have professional engineering talents, and Xu Ke, who has experience as an engineer, is the talent he selected.

Looking at the trench dug in the middle of the mountain in front of him, Wang Ping was not satisfied. Although the trenches were reinforced with logs, they were still vulnerable to running in the mountains and even in the face of infantry artillery. What's more, the fighters hiding in the trenches did not hide from mortar shells and grenades falling from the sky.