Finally staying up until dawn, the chief of staff finally walked into the tent where the headquarters was located with a pair of black circles.

"Did you find out?" Ono asked with a calm face as he stared at the Chief of Staff.

"General, it's been checked! Although the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the night to recapture the third line of defense and the high ground on the mountain, they did not hold out. Our reconnaissance team recaptured these two positions. It's just that the mines left by the Eighth Route Army have caused us more than 20 casualties of the imperial army! ”

"According to the memories of the seriously wounded who were alive on the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army did not know what means were used, and suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain."

"Because the troops hiding on the top of the hill were stationed on the mountainside, there were not many people left on the top of the mountain. The Eighth Route Army, which suddenly appeared at the top of the mountain, easily occupied the top of the mountain, and then condescendingly threw grenades and grenades at our troops stationed in the positions on the mountainside! ”

"The Eighth Route Army condescended to attack us, and although the warriors resisted desperately, they could not withstand the unilateral slaughter of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army."

"Less than half an hour after the battle began, our troops stationed on the high ground on the top of the hill had to retreat!"

Ono suddenly interrupted: "Then the Eighth Route Army will follow our retreating troops and fight all the way to the third line of defense!" ”

"Hey!" The chief of staff replied with his head bowed.

"Baga, have you figured out how the Eighth Route Army touched the top of the mountain, and why our troops stationed on the mountainside didn't find out." Ono stared at the chief of staff and continued to question.

The chief of staff shook his head and replied: "No, the reconnaissance team has been checking for nearly two hours and has not found anything!" ”

It turned out that in order to prevent the tunnels left by the sappers in the other two highlands from being discovered by the devils, when retreating, Wang Ping directly asked people to blow up the entrance and exit of the tunnel.

With a few other hands and feet, it looks like a crater.

Unless the devil digs a meter or two deep, he will never find the existence of the tunnel.

However, it is obviously impossible for the devil reconnaissance unit to dig every crater on the battlefield so deep.

As a result, how the independent regiment quietly touched the top of the mountain has become an eternal secret for the devils.

Seeing the chief of staff with his head down, the angry Ono wanted to cut him down.

He has been waiting in the command headquarters for so long, and the chief of staff has not even figured out the most important issues, how can he not be angry.

With a rage, he screamed after smashing the contents of the bullet box in front of him.

"Revenge, so many warriors died on the battlefield and died at the hands of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. As their brigade commander, we must avenge this revenge! ”

"Chief of Staff, assemble your troops immediately and have breakfast. Then call in air support. In an hour's time, I will attack the fourth line of defense of the Independent Regiment, kill them before noon, fight them, and annihilate them completely! ”

"Hey!" The chief of staff, who was also furious with the Independence Regiment, replied loudly.

But instead of leaving immediately, he replied with a hesitant expression: "But, General, there is a problem that we must solve!" ”

"Otherwise, today's attack won't be able to start at all!"

Ono's brows furrowed, staring at the chief of staff and asking: "What else is the problem, let me tell you, no matter what the problem is, it can't stop the annihilation of the independent regiment today, and I can't stop me from avenging the warriors who died in battle!" ”

"It's troops, we don't have enough troops!" The chief of staff hesitated to answer.

"Although there are more than 6,000 troops in our army entering the mountains, the combat troops only have three infantry brigades, one regiment of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the brigade headquarters guard troops!"

"Yesterday's attack plus last night's battle damage, we have already lost two entire infantry brigades, and a regiment of the Imperial Allied Army has also lost almost a regiment!"

"Now we have only one infantry brigade left to attack, and there is no Imperial Allied Army to fight together."

"If you attack rashly, even if you can break through the remaining three defense lines of the Independent Regiment, the remaining troops will not be able to fight a decisive battle with the remnants of the Independent Regiment?"

"Such a big thing, why do you only report it now!" Ono stared at the chief of staff and asked sharply.

The successive defeats on the battlefield had already filled him with disappointment and dissatisfaction with the deputy chief of staff.

If he can't give himself a satisfactory explanation, Ono doesn't mind taking advantage of the incident to ask the military department to remove the chief of staff.

You must know that lying and deliberately delaying the reporting of military information is a fatal mistake that army commanders absolutely cannot afford to make.

The chief of staff also realized Ono's anger, and did not dare to hide it in the slightest, and immediately said all his thoughts word for word.

After listening to the explanation, Ono had a sense of powerlessness to punch the cotton.

The reason why the chief of staff concealed it and did not report it was all for his own sake.

In the end, he could only suppress the anger in his heart and scolded: "Chief of Staff, do you know that because of your delay, we will have to wait at least half a day before we can continue to attack the Independent Regiment!" ”

"Immediately send a telegram to our troops outside the mountain, asking the second regiment of the Imperial Allied Army and a squadron of imperial troops to enter the mountain immediately to reinforce us!"

"As soon as reinforcements arrive, we will immediately send troops to attack the fourth line of defense of the independent regiment."

The chief of staff couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and after wiping the cold sweat that broke out on his forehead, he understood that he had avoided this catastrophe.

He didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, and immediately replied: "Please rest assured, general, I will go and give orders immediately!" ”

"Also, in the next Xiamen, the humble post will definitely not disappoint the general. After the reinforcements arrive, at most three hours, they must command the troops to kill the independent regiment station! ”

"Yo Xi!" Ono eventually chose to give the chief of staff another chance. After all, he's been partnering with him for several years and has been doing really well before.

Although the former enemy headquarters of the Independent Regiment did not rest all night, Wang Ping did not feel sleepy at all at this time. Because, the staff officer had just delivered the losses to himself last night.

Faced with the bloody casualty data, he couldn't sleep at all.

The second battalion, plus the guard company and the third battalion fire company, had more than 600 people before departure, the chief of staff took away more than 200 people, and he took nearly 400 people, and in the end less than half of them came back alive.

The chief of staff was a little better, because he was not captured at close range with the Japanese army, and the losses were less, and in the end nearly 130 people were withdrawn alive.

But even so, among the 130 people, there were more than 30 seriously wounded, and more than half of them were lost.

The greatest casualties were the troops he led, with more than 250 casualties alone, and more than 30 seriously wounded, and only more than 130 returned unscathed.

"Chief of Staff, that is, in one night, we lost three hundred and fifty soldiers alone, plus the seriously wounded, and the loss of more than four hundred."

"Yes, Commander!" The chief of staff replied with his head bowed.

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