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One day passed, and the subordinates searched Jinzhong County again, but they didn't let go of a corner, but they still found nothing.

The more than a thousand national rescue troops who disappeared in the city lived an extra hour, and they would have more crisis.

In order to get through the immediate crisis, Major General Aso had to order the troops to start a third search for Jinzhong County.

From 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., the two infantry brigades had searched nearly half of the county town, but they still found nothing.

Faced with this result, Major General Aso's heart was directly raised to his throat, without any sleepiness, and he paced back and forth in the war room with his hands on his back. He glanced at the door from time to time, hoping that his subordinates would send him good news soon.

"Report to Chief, the military headquarters urgently sent a message!" The communications officer suddenly appeared at the door of the war room, looking at Major General Aso's report with a nervous look on his face.

The content of the telegram is really amazing, which directly subverts the perception of the communications consultant.

After a while, Major General Masheng will definitely get furious after reading the telegram in his hand. Maybe he will become his target for venting his anger, so he will not be cautious.

The expression and sixth sense on the communications officer's face told Major General Aso that the news on the telegram was not a good thing.

He frowned and asked seriously, "Did you give us the order?"

"Hayi!" The communications staff handed the electric board to the brigade commander while reporting: "The Military Department requires that you immediately assemble an infantry corps to reinforce the sweeping troops and pick them up from the encirclement of the National Salvation Army!"

Major General Aso's face darkened after hearing this, and his premonition of bad feelings became stronger and stronger. He stared at the communications staff and asked anxiously: "Is there something wrong with the sweeping troops? Otherwise, why would the military headquarters ask me to send someone to pick them up?"

While speaking, Major General Aso had already snatched the telegram sent by his staff officer and quickly browsed it at a glance.

In less than ten seconds, the heavy expression on his face was replaced by anger, and he shouted incrediblely: "Bageyalu, how is this possible!"

"There are more than 10,000 troops that swept the National Salvation Army, as well as a large number of artillery fire support and aircraft support. The remnants of the National Salvation Army only have a few thousand people. In the afternoon, they killed two thousand of them, with even fewer troops. How could they be completely destroyed by their counterattack in a few hours? The content of the telegram must be fake, I don't believe it!"

The communications officer quickly took out the second telegram and handed it to Major General Aso: "General, this is the latest information the military headquarters has just informed us. After reading the above content, you will know why the mobilization troops were defeated so quickly!"

Major General Aso was too nervous, and his right hand that was receiving the telegram could not help but tremble.

In order to find out the reason for the mobilization troops as soon as possible, I could only take a deep breath, force myself to calm down, and then look at the second piece of information in my hand.

Soon a stunned expression appeared on his face.

After reading it once, he read it again, and then believed the content on the telegram. At this moment, he grew older several years without any fighting spirit or spirit.

He walked to his seat mechanically, and his whole body was as if he had been exhausted, and he collapsed on the chair.

The chief of staff rushed over after hearing the news. When he saw Major General Aso's reaction, he realized that something was wrong. He immediately walked to the communications officer to ask about the situation.

After listening to the report, the Chief of Staff was also confused.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Cheng, whom he had searched for several days but had not found him, had returned to the defense zone, and the missing national rescue army in the city had long left Jinzhong County.

The Chief of Staff racked his brains and couldn't even figure out how the National Salvation Army did it.

But now that things have come to this point, it is no point to worry about this issue again.

When the sky collapses, there is a tall man holding him over. If the military headquarters really wants to hold him accountable, the brigade commander, as the direct responsible person, must be ahead. As the chief of staff, he only needs to bear some joint and several liability.

So the Chief of Staff quickly reacted from the initial shock, quickly recovered from his calmness, and analyzed in his mind the purpose of the military command.

A minute later, he suddenly shouted: "General, I think the military headquarters is giving us the opportunity to commit crimes and make meritorious service, otherwise you would not have led your troops to meet the sweeping troops in person!"

"The disastrous defeat of the sweeping troops has a direct relationship with our release of Zhou Cheng, the commander of the Savior Army. If the military headquarters really wants to hold us accountable, it is light to send us to the military court. Now, not only has the military police not sent to take us down, but we have led our troops to reinforce the sweeping troops. We obviously don't want to see something happen to us and give us a chance to make meritorious service!"

"If we successfully receive the sweeping troops, even if the military headquarters must hold them accountable under the pressure of the front army, we will not be sent to the military court. Therefore, we must seize this good opportunity to make meritorious service and take the sweeping troops to Jinzhong County at the minimum cost."

Major General Aso's desperate face rekindled hope.

My mind was running rapidly, thinking about the analysis of the Chief of Staff just now, and then my whole body became excited again.

Facing the Chief of Staff's gaze, he agreed: "You are right, the military is indeed saving us and making meritorious service."

"Tell me the order, the first, second, third squadrons, and cavalry brigade, assembled at the East Gate within half an hour and reinforced the sweeping troops with me."

"The baggage team, the third and fourth squadrons of the Third Battalion, the engineer squadron, and the Imperial Army, all stayed to protect the Jinzhong County."

On the battlefield of Zhujiazhuang, under the joint attack of thirty or forty mortars of the National Salvation Army, the few remaining mortars of the Japanese were soon lost.

But Colonel Ishida did not get nothing. When both sides were attracted by the artillery battle, more than two thousand Japanese seized the opportunity and took only more than ten minutes to repair a temporary circular defense line to temporarily block the offensive of the National Salvation Army.

"Sir, I have already calculated the situation of the troops!" A captain found Colonel Ishida to report, with a very heavy expression.

Colonel Ishida knew that the current situation of the army was not much better, so he had already prepared his mind and asked one of his most concerned questions: "How many people are left in the army to continue fighting against the National Savior Army!"

The captain blurted out: "After replenishing the excess baggage, artillery and engineers, we still have 2,158 people to continue fighting. In addition, there are 428 seriously injured people on the position who are unable to move."

"Most of the seriously injured were generated when we attacked the National Salvation Army in the afternoon to block the positions, and a small number of seriously injured were generated during the raid just now!"

"There are four light tanks left in heavy weapons, eight armored vehicles, one infantry cannon, two mortars, 23 heavy machine guns, 159 light machine guns, and 128 grenade launchers..."

"But we have few ammunitions, and there are less than two bases left per capita. If we conduct high-intensity combat, this ammunition is only enough for us to fight for more than an hour."

Seeing that the corps captain's expression became heavier and he frowned and fell into deep thought. He did not immediately answer his words, the captain hesitated for a moment and continued: "From the situation of the battle, the current situation is very good for us. The advantage of troops, artillery fire, and terrain are all on the side of the National Salvation Army."

"If we continue to stay here and wait for assistance, the National Salvation Army only needs to dispatch artillery troops to kill us!"

"So, Huye dared to propose that we should organize troops to break through immediately."

"Although we are not good at night and mobile warfare, the night is very beneficial to our breakthrough."

"Now we have almost lost all our heavy weapons and baggage and ammunition, and we can march everywhere. As long as the troops find ways to break out of the encirclement of the National Rescue Army and constantly change the direction of retreat and the route of marching, the National Rescue Army will not be able to ambush us in front of us, and at most follow the team to chase us."

"But as long as we retreat quickly enough, the pursuers of the National Salvation Army will not do anything to us, and the losses of the troops can be minimized."

Colonel Ishida still didn't speak. Just when the captain couldn't help but want to continue speaking, he finally spoke: "I agree to break through and retreat, and leave immediately!"

"The National Salvation Army is good at night battles, and all kinds of advantages are in their hands. In order to avoid our air strikes, they will definitely launch an attack overnight and destroy us before dawn."

"The army has only one temporary circular position, and there is no danger to defend. A small-scale attack may cause us huge losses, so we must break through before the National Salvation Army launches a new round of attacks, so that the losses of the army can be minimized!"

"I just observed the enemy situation. A large number of national rescue troops gathered in the east and south directions, and we have fought with them, which is very difficult to fight!"

"There are the fewest national-savior troops in the north, and we have never fought with them. No matter which aspect of analysis, the north is our best breakthrough direction."

Before the captain came, he studied the troops' breakthrough direction. Coincidentally, his idea was the same as the team leader, and he also felt that the north was the best direction for the troops to break through.

Immediately received the order: "The officer is wise and humble, and I think it is best to break through the north!"

"I will arrange troops and firepower now, and strive to attack and kill the National Savior Army to encircle."

"What's the hurry? I haven't finished speaking yet!" Colonel Ishida called out to the captain who was about to leave.

"We can think that the north is our best direction to break through, and the National Salvation Army can definitely think that they are now waiting in the north and waiting for us to get into our pockets!"

"I decided to give the National Savior Army a sound attack!"

"On the surface, I broke through from the north, but actually broke through from the south!"

"Our artillery positions and supplies are just south. After the troops successfully broke through, they passed by, exploded all the artillery that had not been destroyed just now, and then added some weapons and ammunition to everyone!"

"Otherwise, when we fight with the National Savior Army, we don't even have ammunition, so we can only be passively beaten!"

The captain agreed with the team leader's decision in his heart, but did not take the order immediately.

To beating east and attack west means that troops must be in the next breakthrough battle.

There are national rescue troops everywhere, and the artillery advantage is also in their hands. No matter which unit receives this task, it means that they have no chance to break out of the encirclement with the main force.

So this is a 100% mission to die.

There are more than 2,000 people left in the encirclement, and no matter who stays in Shengdong, the captain will not be willing to let it go.

After thinking about it, the evil man who made the choice could only be the leader of the regiment. The leader looked at Colonel Ishida and asked, "Sir, don't you know what the Eastern Army in your heart is?"

Colonel Ishida fell into deep thought again, but it lasted less than ten seconds before making a decision, with a heartache command: "We must march urgently for nearly eight hours from here to Jinzhong County. In order to get rid of the pursuit of the National Salvation Army and prevent them from determining our retreat route in advance, setting up ambush and burying mines on the road we must pass. The troops must give up the road and walk the mountain road and small road back to Jinzhong."

"So the tanks and armored vehicles equipped by the chariot squadron must not retreat with us."

"You immediately draw two-thirds of the tanks and armored vehicles from the chariot squadron, and then draw a baggage squadron to launch an attack on the northward National Salvation Army."

"The wounded in the team who cannot move freely are arranged in both east and west directions, take over the position, block the attacking troops of the National Savior Army at all costs, and buy time for us to break out of the encirclement!"

"The other troops broke through the south under the cover of the remaining tanks and armored vehicles of the chariot squadron, broke out of the encirclement as quickly as possible, and headed straight for the artillery position!"

"Download the remaining artillery positions at the artillery positions while replenishing ammunition, and then break through directly in the direction of Jinzhong!"

At the front command of the National Salvation Army, Zhou Cheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the smoke filled the artillery positions slowly dissipating.

The Japanese army's jade and stone burned together just now came too suddenly. Fortunately, it was quick to react. The counterattack troops carried a large number of mortars and killed the remaining artillery soldiers of the Japanese in just two minutes.

If the reaction was slower and the Japanese artillery attacked for a few more minutes, the artillery positions that the main force finally seized would definitely suffer heavy losses.

"The losses of the artillery positions and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions have been counted!" Deputy Chief of Staff Li Honghui hurried over to report.

"Although the power of the mortar is not great, the artillery positions we seized have reserved a large number of artillery shells with fuses. In the two-minute artillery attack, more than 20 mountain artillery and heavy artillery shells were detonated, so the losses of the artillery positions were very large."

"To be specific?" Zhou Cheng's face flashed with concern and asked anxiously.

Li Honghui continued to report: "There are five field artillery, six mountain artillery, and six heavy artillery that were destroyed during the detonation of ammunition. The main second and third battalions were killed in total and 39 were seriously injured. Most of the casualties were caused by the detonation of ammunition."

After hearing this, Zhou Cheng sighed: "The loss is greater than I imagined."

"But the Japanese in the encirclement have no artillery troops. As long as they are not given a chance to get close to the artillery position, there are only one or twenty artillery pieces left. The artillery battalion will be upgraded to a real heavy artillery battalion because of these seizures."

Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu suddenly interjected: "Captain, these Japanese devils are too cunning!"

"We are almost killed. It's a big deception to destroy our 1000 artillery artillery before we die."

"Then they can't be spared in the next battle. Only by destroying them all will they be worthy of the sacrificed soldiers."

Zhou Cheng nodded: "We not only have to eat them, but also have to fight quickly. We will launch an attack before they are ready and catch them off guard, so that we can end the battle with the minimum cost."

"Order all artillery participating in the war to aim at the Japanese in the encirclement, firing in five minutes, firing for ten minutes, and covering all the Japanese in the encirclement with artillery fire."

"After the shelling is over, all participating troops will launch an attack together to reduce the living space of the Japanese!"

"After the general attack begins, each infantry company will strengthen three mortars to cooperate with the attack. The Japanese who can be solved with shells will definitely not use bullets!"

"The rapid-fire gun company participated in the attack together. There were many tanks and armored vehicles in the encirclement. If you resist, you don't have to ask me for instructions and just fire the gun and destroy it!"
Chapter completed!