The brigade commander felt a little uneasy in his heart, feeling that something happened to the pacification garrison.

He strides to the sand table: "Where was the Punishment Guards stationed last night? When did they start returning to the county town?"

The combat staff in charge of the sand table quickly pointed to a report: "Last night they were stationed at this location, about thirty kilometers away from the county town, and around the early morning, they received a telegram from the brigade's consent to retreat."

The brigade commander frowned when he heard this. After turning his head to look at the big clock behind his body on the wall, his brows became deeper: "Time is wrong!"

"Although thirty kilometers is very long, it can be completed in five or six hours if you march in a hurry. You can set off in the early morning and walk on the road for a little less than half an hour before you can calm down."

"Asakawa has a rich experience in combat command. Regardless of whether the county town has been captured by the National Rescue Army, he will report it to the brigade command center as soon as possible, and he will definitely not deliberately not report it."

"Now not only does he not take the initiative to report, but we can't contact them even if we call on it. Something must have happened!"

The more you analyze the bad premonition in the mind of the brigade commander, the stronger the feeling.

The chief of staff's mind was very fast and quickly proposed: "General, now it's dawn, we can dispatch planes to investigate the specific situation of pacification."

"Yangquan is not too far away from pacifying. If you dispatch cavalry, you can run back and forth in more than an hour. Beizhi immediately ordered the reconnaissance troops to send a few reconnaissance cavalry to pacify the reconnaissance situation!"

The brigade commander nodded: "Speed ​​up!"

Before the Chief of Staff moved, a chaotic and rapid footsteps came from the door of the combat room, and then he saw the captain of the Yangquan garrison rushing in with a look of embarrassment.

He ran to the brigade commander and took several breaths before he could recover, and reported with an anxious look: "General, the Yangquan garrison cannot continue to attack the National Salvation Army that crossed the blockade line last night. Please send other troops to carry out this mission!"

"Why?" The brigade commander stared at the other party's eyes and asked in confusion.

The captain gritted the bullet and replied: "The garrison was crippled and there was no strength to attack the National Salvation Army. If you forcefully kill it, you may be trapped in..."

The last sentence was said by the captain gritting his teeth. He originally wanted to say the four words "The entire army was destroyed", but to make it better, he temporarily changed a slightly more tactful word.

The brigade commander stared at the sight of him, and his face was full of incredible expressions: "How is this possible?"

"I remember last night you said that the Yangquan Garrison had nearly half a brigade of troops, why was the troops now crippled? Did you lied about military information last night and the real losses of the troops attacking the Yangquan Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army were much greater than you reported?"

The captain quickly explained: "The chief is calm, he has not lie about military information."

"After the battle yesterday, the Yangquan Garrison did have nearly half a brigade of troops, and the Imperial Army still had more than 400 people, but our retreat was very unsatisfactory."

"The troops were counterattacked by the Eighth Route Army as soon as they retreated. In order to return to the occupied areas as soon as possible and not be stuck by the Eighth Route Army, Beizhi ordered the troops to blow up all the extra baggage and ammunition and advance lightly, but they still lost dozens of imperial troops and imperial assistant troops."

"On the retreat road, the Eighth Route Army not only arranged a large number of pursuing troops to bite behind us, but also arranged four ambushers on the retreat road. Each ambush has one or two companies of troops, is very well equipped and is equipped with heavy weapons."

"After the troops were raided, in order to prevent the pursuing troops from catching up and dragging us down? I can only cut off my arm? I left some troops to entangle with the Eighth Route Army raid troops, and led other troops to continue to retreat..."

"As a result, the four raids lost more than 300 imperial troops and imperial assistant troops."

The brigade commander looked angry when he heard this. His clenched fists kept trembling. If it weren't for the urgent war, he would have wanted to slap the captain in front of him twice?

Taking a deep breath, forcing yourself to calm down and continued to ask, "That's not right? You still had more than 900 people last night? More than 400 people were lost on the way to retreat, and there should be more than 500 people. How could a single National Savior Army dare not fight?"

The captain continued to report: "In addition to combat losses, there is another loss on the way to retreat!"

"The army marched too fast? The distance is also long? Except for a small number of Imperial Army that can keep up with the Imperial Army, most of the Imperial Army have fallen behind. They either become prisoners of the National Salvation Army or take the opportunity to slip away, losing at least two hundred people along the way!"

The brigade commander finally couldn't help it? Staring at the captain of the Yangquan Guard Team, cursing: "Baga... You are just a stupid pig. You can drive the troops from more than 900 people to two or three hundred people by retreat... No? You are even stupider than a stupid pig..."

The Chief of Staff was also stunned by the report, but when he thought that the National Salvation Army that crossed the blockade last night was still robbing food in Yangquan without restraint, he was anxious? He quickly reminded the brigade commander to get back to the topic: "General, what happened is here? We should first find a way to kill the National Salvation Army that entered Yangquan last night!"

"I suggest that a squadron be drawn from the brigade command center to supplement the Yangquan garrison? Let them leave the city immediately? Use the fastest speed to find and kill this national-savior army."

When it comes to the commander of the military brigade who saves the country, he has a headache.

If the National Salvation Army hadn't suddenly attacked the blockade line last night, the brigade's battle against the Eighth Route Army would have been able to win today.

Now not only did the cooked ducks fly, but the return troops also suffered heavy losses on the retreat road, completely losing both the wife and the army.

And the initiator of all this is the National Salvation Army.

The brigade commander decided to turn the finger at the National Salvation Army again, hoping to recover some losses from them, and even if they cannot hurt the National Salvation Army, they will bite a piece of meat from them.

Staring at the captain of the Yangquan garrison, he ordered with murderous intent: "I will give you a chance to make meritorious service!"

"As the Chief of Staff said just now, a squadron was drawn from the brigade command to supplement the Yangquan garrison. You will immediately take them out of the city and use the fastest speed to eliminate the National Salvation Army that entered Yangquan last night."

"After completing the mission, you are still the captain of the Yangquan Guard Team."

"If you can't complete the mission, you don't want to come back. The Imperial Army doesn't need a stupid commander like you!"

The captain of the Yangquan Guard Team was so excited that he almost cried after hearing this order.

He was ready to be removed from the captain's position as a brigade commander, but he did not expect to be able to make a turn for the most part and win a chance to make meritorious service.

Although I know that this task is also difficult to complete, it is better to have a chance than not to have a chance, so I quickly answered: "Please rest assured that if I can't complete the task, I don't have the shame to continue living without the orders of the superior."

After the back of the Yangquan Guard Team captain disappeared from his eyes, the brigade commander's face did not look better, but became more and more worried.

After hearing what Yangquan garrison team had encountered on the retreat road, he was very worried that other garrison teams would also experience the battle they led.

If so, the brigade's losses last night would definitely be beyond imagination.

More importantly, as the commander of the brigade, I could not do anything because I had no troops in my hands and faced the dangers that the garrisons might face.

In order to prevent their worries from becoming a reality, the brigade commander immediately ordered: "In addition to continuing to contact the pacification garrison, other garrisons under the brigade should also contact them as soon as possible, so that they can report their latest situation immediately, the more detailed the better!"

More than half an hour later, the Brigade Command received telegrams from three garrison teams one after another.

The result was exactly the same as the brigade commander's worries. Each garrison was raided by the Eighth Route Army on the way to retreat, causing heavy losses.

The more the brigade commander looked, the ugly his face became, which led to the atmosphere in the war room becoming more and more depressing. Everyone was careful to do the work they had, fearing that they would irritate the commander.

At this moment, a "report..." attracted the attention of everyone in the war room.

A lieutenant hurriedly ran in and rushed to report before he could stand firm: "General, an Eighth Route Army unit appeared in the north of the city, with less than one company of troops. He was staring at the county town from afar, and his purpose was unknown..."

Before he finished speaking, the intelligence staff broke in: "General, Bei Yi just received the information: the Yangquan Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army suddenly divided his troops into the occupied area of ​​the Imperial Army, cutting off all the passages in and out of the county town in the north of Yangquan!"

The Chief of Staff saw the purpose of the Independent Regiment at a glance: "No, the brigade commander. The Independent Regiment wanted to take advantage of the gap between Yangquan garrison teams and lose their generals to develop all the villages and towns north of Yangquan into their base areas."

"The blockade of the passages in and out of the city is definitely to capture all the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army who have not had time to retreat in these places, and the Chinese who have worked hard in the Imperial Army!"

"They have such a big appetite. Are they not afraid of suffocating themselves to death?"

The brigade commander had a red face with anger and said to himself with a fury: "Do you think this person has a big appetite?"

"If the National Salvation Army was active in Yangquan North, they would definitely be at the city now and are ready to attack Yangquan City."

"Fortunately, our opponent is the Eighth Route Army, which lacks attacking weapons, otherwise Yangquan will be in danger!"

"It's so annoying. We spent so much effort to prepare for a sweep. Not only did we not kill the Eighth Route Army, but we were hit by them. Their bases did not shrink, and they also expanded a lot in the anti-sweep!"

"No matter whether we can gain advantage from the National Salvation Army in the next battle, we were defeated by the Eighth Route Army and were defeated miserably!"

After saying this, the brigade commander was like a defeated rooster, sitting on the chair with his butt without any strength on his body.

The Chief of Staff was a little unwilling to accept it: "Are we just watching the towns in the north of the city be controlled by the independent regiment?"

"What else can I do?" The brigade commander was helpless to answer.

"Our limited troops are not even the National Rescue Army, so what can we use to deal with the Eighth Route Army?"

"The Independent Regiment clearly wanted to capture all the remaining Imperial Army and the Imperial Army in a few towns, and then control these places."

"Even if we temporarily draw troops to attack the Independent Regiment, without the cooperation of the Imperial Army and those local tyrants, the offensive troops will become a group of blind and deaf people. How can we take back those towns from the Eighth Route Army?"

At the end, the brigade commander made a decision directly.

"First protect the county town, kill the national rescue army in the territory and then find a way to put away the Eighth Route Army!"
Chapter completed!