When the soldiers of the artillery company saw Wang Chengzhu's gesture, they quickly unloaded the artillery from their horses, and then quickly assembled it.

After more than ten minutes, all the guns were assembled, and the black muzzles were already aimed at the camp of the devils.

"Company commander, it's all assembled." The platoon commander of the artillery company ran over and shouted at Wang Chengzhu.

Hearing the voice, Wang Chengzhu walked to the front and raised the flag in his hand, and seeing Wang Chengzhu's movements, the soldiers of the artillery company hurriedly loaded the shells into the barrels.

"Shoot, prepare, release." After speaking, the flag in Wang Chengzhu's hand waved down violently.

When the soldiers heard Wang Chengzhu's order, they immediately understood what their company commander meant.

Rapid fire is to shoot at the already set shooting elements, and the shells can hit as fast as they can. That is, in the shortest possible time, the most shells were fired.

As Wang Chengzhu's order was given, the soldiers of the artillery company pulled the firing rope of the artillery.

In an instant, the shells flew in the direction of the devil's camp with a whistling sound, and then the soldiers quickly reloaded the shells and pulled the launch rope.

Rapid fire is like that, you don't need to wait for the gun to open the gun, you just need to load the shell into the gun lie and fire it.

Without Wang Chengzhu's order to stop the shelling, the soldiers of the artillery company kept firing until all the running bombs they brought were gone.

At this time, the devils in the camp blew up, and after several days of marching, they finally set up camp and could take a good rest, but they didn't expect to be shelled, and the devils were in a state of confusion at the moment, and they didn't know what was going on.

When a series of explosions sounded in the camp, the devils instantly did not feel sleepy, and they came out of the tent one after another and began to dodge.

"Shelling, shelling, fast, fast, dodge." At this moment, there was no roar from the camp of the devil officers.

"Baga, where did this cannonball come from, you are all stupid pigs, and you haven't found out yet?" At this time, a disgraced devil officer shouted a reprimand to several artillery soldiers on the side.

"Your Excellency, the shells are coming from our side." An artillery soldier said tremblingly.

"Nani, who is coming from the side, quickly organize troops to rush towards the enemy's artillery position, and make sure to catch these people for me." The wing commander heard the soldier's words and commanded the handrail to the side.

At this time, Li Yunlong also led a new regiment of soldiers to drain the water surrounding Ping'an County, but did not launch an attack on the city, but besieged it but did not attack.

Soon, the Japanese soldiers on the city wall noticed the anomaly, so they immediately ran down the city wall to find Muto Midou to report.

"Your Excellency the Division Commander, Your Excellency the Division Commander, it's not good, the Eighth Road, the Eighth Road, the Eighth Road has surrounded our county." The warrior rushed into Muto's room without hesitation, panting and shouting.

Muto Mibi, who was sleeping, heard the voice of the warrior and sat up from the bed immediately, regardless of whether the two Japanese singers next to him were naked or not.

"What did you say?"

"Eight roads, eight roads surround our county."

"Bagaya Road." Muto Mikashi was startled when he heard the warrior's words, and no matter what time it was, he quickly put on his clothes after scolding, and then walked out of the room.

While walking in the direction of the command room, he instructed the fighters next to him to wake up Ichiro Honda and Miki in winter.

Although Muto Triple drank a little too much tonight, he immediately woke up in fright when he heard that the Eighth Route Army was coming.

After a while, Ichiro Honda and Miki Higashiten came to the command room. Then Muto Triple told the two about the siege of the Eighth Route Army.

But before the three of them could discuss what to do next, a telegraph operator barged in.

"Report, Your Excellency the Division Commander, the 21st and 22nd Divisions sent a telegram saying that their camp had been shelled by the Eighth Route Army." The telegraph operator came in, gave the three men a military salute, and then said.

"Nani, there are still artillery on the Eighth Road here?" Hearing the telegraph operator's words, Miki and Ichiro Honda immediately asked in surprise.

They didn't understand why the Eighth Route Army here was different from what they had seen before. The eight roads they encountered before, not to mention artillery, couldn't even get together a rifle.

When they heard that the Eighth Route Army was besieging the city just now, the two of them didn't take it seriously, you must know that without the assistance of artillery, it would be very difficult to attack the city.

As long as their reinforcements arrive, the two sides will be flanked back and forth, and this eight-way army will not be able to escape. But now it's different, I heard Muto's introduction three times before, and I know that there are not many defenders in the city, and if the Eighth Route Army starts the siege with artillery assistance, maybe the city will be breached before reinforcements arrive.

In that case, the commanders of the three divisions would have no other way out than to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.

At this time, Wang Chengzhu, who was not far from the devil's camp, hurriedly organized people to disassemble the artillery after the soldiers ran out of shells, and then put the dismantled parts on horseback, turned around and rushed towards the new regiment station.

Because all the people rode horses, they ran very fast, and when the little devils rushed to the artillery position, they found that the enemy had gone to the empty building.

"Bagaya Road, Bagaya Road." The leader of the devil squadron, who rushed to the artillery evacuation position, looked at the artillery shells all over the ground, waved the command knife in his hand, and scolded angrily.

"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, the enemy has retreated. Moreover, the direction of the retreat is unknown, and even the traces are clear to them, so if we are pursued further, we will have to mobilize military dogs. A devil ran over and reported to the squadron leader.

"Immediately report to Your Excellency the United Warriors what we have to do here, and ask for instructions on whether to continue the pursuit." The squadron leader said helplessly, he didn't have the right to decide whether to continue the pursuit next.

After all, they had just been transferred here, and they were unfamiliar with the place, and in case they fell into the enemy's trap, this sin was not something he could bear.

Soon the news spread to the rear wing commander, at this time the wing commander was angry, although the loss of troops in this artillery bombardment was not very many, only one squadron of troops, but this time they brought over the combat materials, but the loss was not small, if the replenishment is not timely enough, it will definitely have an impact on the next battle.

After suffering such a big loss, if they were run away by the enemy, then how would they explain to the above, although this encounter was not caused by them, but the above will not pay attention to these.

So several wing commanders discussed it, and immediately sent military dogs, saying that they would leave the enemy's artillery units behind today, and only in this way could they make up for their mistakes.

At this time, Wang Chengzhu, who was only fully equipped with war horses, marched very fast, all the way in the direction of Zhaojiayu.

"Company commander, Zhao Jiayu is in front." A soldier ran up to Wang Chengzhu and said to him.

"Okay, it's finally back." Hearing the soldier's words, Wang Chengzhu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Our shelling this time, whether it is from the psychology or actions of the devils, is a huge blow. When you go back, the head of the regiment will definitely reward you, and don't forget my brother and me when the time comes. Sun Desheng on the side rode up to Wang Chengzhu and said.

"Company Commander Sun, don't be modest, if it weren't for the cooperation of our cavalry company, the brothers of our artillery company would be able to escape from the pursuit of the little devil, what reward is not rewarded, as long as you can follow the regiment commander to fight the devil, don't talk about this, after a busy night's work, let's go back to sleep quickly." Wang Chengzhu said to Sun Desheng.

"Yes, okay, then let's hurry up and go back to sleep. Oh, by the way, I haven't informed the head of the regiment about our return, no, you guys go back first, I'll go and inform the head of the group. Sun Desheng remembered that Li Yunlong was still besieging Ping'an County with his troops, so he had to hurry over and rush to him, otherwise it would be bad to wait for the devil to react and transfer support to the regiment commander to attack before and after.

Next, the troops were divided into two routes, Wang Chengzhu returned to the garrison with the brothers of the artillery company to pay attention, while Sun Desheng took a few soldiers and ran towards Ping'an County.

When Li Yunlong returned to the garrison with his troops, Muto Mitsubi learned that Li Yunlong's siege of the county town was fake, and the main goal of the search was to take advantage of the absence of the supreme commander of the 212nd Division to sneak attack their camp and blow up their war materials.

But now it is too late to react, the combat materials of the two divisions have been blown up by Li Yunlong's artillery, and if the next combat operations want to go smoothly, they can only report this matter to the headquarters and ask His Excellency the commander to arrange for the materials to be transported over, otherwise they will be very passive.

And in the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Taiyuan, Kusuyama Hideyoshi also saw the urgent telegram sent to him by Muto Mitsubi.

"Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, if you want to say something, should you give this telegram to Your Excellency the Commander?" Intelligence officer Matsushiro looked at Kusuyama Hideyoshi in a daze and asked.

Since he received three times the telegram from Muto, he was also stunned for a moment, and then realized that the situation was urgent, so he found Kusuyama Hideyoshi, who was on duty, on those telegrams.

After reading the telegram, Kusuyama Hideyoshi was stunned for more than ten minutes and didn't speak, so Matsushitoro, who was a little anxious, hurriedly asked.

"Baga, there is this Li Yunlong, are the two division commanders all stupid? As soon as they arrived in Ping'an County, they lost the strength of a squadron, and the key was that the combat materials they brought were blown up, and I don't know how they were promoted to military positions. After hearing Matsushita's words, Hideyoshi Kusuyama scolded and said with a grin, walking towards the room where Yoshio Shinozuka was resting.

When Kusuyama Hideyoshi came to the door of the room where Yoshio Shinozuka was resting, he hesitated for a long time, he didn't know how to report this matter to Yoshio Shinozuka, and finally knocked on the door of Yoshio Shinozuka's room.

"Knock knock, knock knock."

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Your Excellency, Commander."

Nanshan Hideyoshi knocked them a few times, and then shouted.

"Nanshan-kun, what's wrong, is there anything urgent?" Yoshio Shinozuka was confused and heard that it was Nanshan Hideyoshi calling him, so he asked at the door while getting up and dressing.

"Your Excellency Commander, something has happened, and an urgent telegram has been sent from the 21st Division and the 22nd Division." Kusuyama Hideyoshi lowered his head and said a little unnaturally.

After Yoshio Shinozuka heard Kusuyama Hideyoshi's words, he suddenly sat up from the bed, and his sleepiness suddenly disappeared without a trace, and he ran over to open the door for Kusunayama Hideyoshi regardless of whether he was dressed or not.

After all, when a telegram was sent at this time, it must have been an accident with these two divisions, otherwise it would be impossible to be in such a hurry.

"Nanshan-kun, what happened?"

"Your Excellency Commander, tonight, the division commanders of the 21st Division and the 22nd Division went to Ping'an County to be a guest, Li Yunlong took this opportunity to send artillery to shell the camps of the two divisions, and the two divisions lost a total of one squadron of troops. After Nanshan Hideyoshi finished speaking, the telegram in his hand was also handed to Yoshio Shinozuka.

Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't believe what Kusuyama Hideyoshi said, and finally, after taking the telegram from Kusuyama Hideyoshi and reading it, he was sure that this matter was true.

"Bagaya Road." Yoshio Shinozuka angrily tore the telegram to shreds after reading it.

You must know that this is a month's worth of combat materials for two divisions, and if you want to get it together again, it will not be able to be completed in a short time, and as for the loss of a squadron's strength, he doesn't care much. Anyway, there are enough troops transferred this time, so it's a big deal to replenish it again.

However, the war materials are different, especially the really huge amount of materials, not to mention how much, it will take a lot of time to transport them in the past.

There were also defense areas that passed through many hostile forces along the way, although they secretly colluded with the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army. But no one knows if there will be any accidents if they take this route again, after all, the two sides are now enemies.

"Your Excellency Commander, let's hurry up and start mobilizing materials now, let's transport them to the front line, anyway, the next two divisions will still participate in the operation, and we can't do it without war materials." Kusuyama Hideyoshi's scalp was numb and said to Yoshio Shinozuka, no way. War materials must be transported again, otherwise the next battle will not be able to fight at all.

Fortunately, in this battle, they prepared a total of one and a half months of combat materials, except for the previous two divisions when they left, there are still a lot of the rest as long as they are transported, enough for them to support half a month. After that, it's easy, it's a big deal to mobilize slowly.

"Okay, transport the rest of the supplies to them, but be careful halfway, don't be destroyed by the Eighth Route Army." Although Yoshio Shinozuka was angry, he also knew the priorities, and in any case, the material might have to be transported.

As for the punishment of these two division commanders, it will be said after the end of this combat operation.

(End of chapter)