"Sir, something happened!" The chief of staff stood at the door of the commander's room, knocking on the door while reporting, looking very nervous.

My next report will definitely make the military leader furious, and his good mood for several consecutive days will be interrupted.

But he couldn't care about that much, and the heavy losses on the front line were no longer something he, as the chief of staff, could make a decision.

"What's the matter? Can't you wait until tomorrow? It's so chaotic, what's the point!" The commander scolded the door with dissatisfaction.

The Chief of Staff immediately explained: "Sir, please calm down. The Eighth Route Army in our defense zone didn't know what to do. We agreed to launch an attack on our strongholds and artillery towers from around nine o'clock."

"To this day, we have lost more than a dozen large and small strongholds and artillery towers, and lost more than 400 Imperial Army and nearly 1,000 Imperial Army."

"The Eighth Route Army's offensive not only did not stop, but also became more and more intense."

"Preliminary statistics show that the Eighth Route Army in our defense zone participated in this attack, which had at least thirty different numbers, including independent regiments, main regiments, new regiments, and some inequality independent battalions, guerrilla brigades, and county brigades, with a large number of people."

"Weizhi suspected that this was a premeditated attack. We must counterattack as soon as possible and come up with solutions. Otherwise, the front line will definitely be a mess and we will suffer heavy losses!"

"Also, the Eighth Route Army, who participated in the attack, changed its usual combat style and fought very hard when attacking us."

"In the past, if we could fight head-on, we wouldn't fight head-on. We had poor equipment and few ammunition. We wanted to break a bullet into two, and we had almost no heavy weapons to participate in the battle."

"The Eighth Route Army attacking us tonight was a change of personal hope. The troops were still the same, but their equipment and ammunition were better than before."

"Not only did we use a large number of heavy weapons to attack our artillery towers and strongholds, but we also had ammunition more than before."

"Before tonight, our artillery tower could withstand the attack of a main battalion of the newly formed Eighth Route Army regiment. Tonight, facing the same troops, our artillery tower was actually broken after only one hour!"

The sleepiness on the commander's face disappeared instantly. He grabbed the military uniform at hand and ran to the war room. As he ran, he ran: "Bageya Road, what happened to the defense zone? How can you report it? Can you be responsible for delaying military information?"

"A fool can see that this is a premeditated attack. It has been a day or two since we fought with the Eighth Route Army. We have been familiar with their playing style for a long time. When have we ever seen them send so many troops to attack us at once?"

"You are so stupid. You lost so many artillery towers and strongholds before coming to report.

As soon as the commander walked into the war room, the deputy chief of staff walked towards him with a very heavy expression: "Report to the commander, five more strongholds and artillery towers just now lost contact, including two medium strongholds, and the Imperial Army stationed more than one infantry squadron."

"They called to report before: at least one regiment of the Eighth Route Army attacked them, in addition to being equipped with heavy machine guns and mortars, they also equipped with an engineering mountain cannon. The artillery towers and castles in the stronghold must have been destroyed by mountain cannons!"

"When did the Eighth Route Army have such good equipment? Even mountain cannons!" The Chief of Staff immediately asked a question that he had been unable to understand.

The commander blurted out: "The Eighth Route Army must have hidden its strength in the previous fight!"

"We have fought many major battles with the Eighth Route Army, especially the sweeping of their base areas. Many heavy weapons were lost in the battle. They should have seized it?"

"Then why didn't they use those heavy weapons in the previous battles!" The Chief of Staff was still a little confused.

"Because the ammunition of those heavy weapons is limited, they are gone after the Eighth Route Army. They can only be hidden like treasures and use them at critical moments!" The commander thought for a while and then continued to explain.

"And our fight with them is mainly guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. The role of heavy weapons is very limited. The Eighth Route Army will definitely not be willing to kill chickens and use a ox knife to dispatch mountain cannons and mortars to deal with our small combat troops!"

Speaking of this, the commander's eyes were suddenly attracted by the sand table.

Three combat staff surrounded the side, and according to the latest battle situation sent by the communication staff and telephone soldiers, the artillery towers and strongholds that had been attacked and had been captured were marked on the sand table.

There are more and more artillery towers attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the marks on the sand table have also changed from sporadic distribution to the current ones!

No, it is connected to a line.

Those strongholds and artillery towers are either on the side of the railway or on the side of the highway. There are also many strongholds that are major transportation routes, and the only way to a county town...

"The Eighth Route Army wants to cut off our railway lines and road transportation!" The commander became more and more shocked as he looked at it, and opened his mouth and shouted in dismay.

The Chief of Staff also found some clues from the commander's exclamation, frowned and a solemn analysis: "The Shanxi section of the Zhengtai Railway was not attacked except for Yangquan and Pingding, and the Eighth Route Army attacked all other railways. Could it be that the Eighth Route Army wanted to paralyze the Zhengtai Railway and our road transportation!"

The commander replied calmly: "It's probably true!"

"You immediately send a telegram to the garrisons in the county around the railway and the official roads: ask them to send troops to reinforce the railway line immediately to protect the safety of the railway line, and prevent the Eighth Route Army from destroying the railway line after capturing the stronghold."

If the troops scattered in the Shanxi garrison of the Japanese army in various counties and strongholds were fists and tests, then the roads and railway lines connecting these places were the major arteries. If the major arteries were cut off, the fists and organs were likely to die due to insufficient blood supply.

The Chief of Staff also realized the seriousness of the problem and quickly took the order.

But even so, they underestimated the Eighth Route Army's determination to launch this large-scale raid.

At most two days they will realize that the scale and scope of the battle will become larger and larger. The reinforcement order just now can only play the role of demolishing the east wall and repairing the west wall, and it will not stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army at all.

But besides this method, the army commander could not think of any other method in a short period of time.

The Shanxi garrison has a serious shortage of troops, and the shortage of mobile troops is even more serious. In addition to the local garrison, he can no longer mobilize extra troops to protect railways and highways, otherwise he would not be so anxious to recruit the national rescue army.

After the Chief of Staff arranged the matter, the commander continued to order: "Send another telegram to the people who negotiated with the National Salvation Army, asking him to immediately agree to all the remaining requests of the National Salvation Army and reorganize the National Salvation Army into the Imperial Army within three days."

"Also give the troops stationed around the National Salvation Army a order to prepare them for transfer at any time."

"After the National Salvation Army is reorganized into the Imperial Army, they must go to the battlefield as soon as possible, attack the Eighth Route Army along the railways and highways, and kill them."

"At the same time, the adapted National Salvation Army was ordered to prepare for the war!"

"Even if they have just accepted the adaptation and the troops cannot participate in the war directly, they must be transferred to the battlefield to threaten the Eighth Route Army and alleviate our combat pressure!"

Zhou Cheng received accurate information from the Yangquan Command of the National Salvation Army the next morning of the next day that the Eighth Route Army launched a large-scale raid in North China.

After listening to Zheng Yunshan’s report, Tang Yufeng and Chen Zhengyu’s expressions changed.

They suddenly thought that two months ago, when the Japanese wanted to recruit the National Rescue Army, Zhou Cheng proposed the decision to delay the negotiation progress through the Lion.

At that time, the leader of the group vowed to tell everyone that as long as the negotiation was delayed for two months, he would have a way to solve this problem.

Now two months have arrived, and the negotiations between the two sides have reached the most critical moment.

These days they asked the team leader more than once about the solution, but the team leader smiled and told them that they would know it naturally.

The Eighth Route Army did not move early or late, but at this time launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese. The two of them would naturally associate this matter with Zhou Cheng's previous guarantee. They felt that Zhou Cheng had known about the action, so they only proposed two months of preparation time at that time.

But they didn't believe their judgment.

The Eighth Route Army participated in this large-scale raid war with more than 100,000 people, with an unprecedented scale. It must have been planned and formulated by the Eighth Route Army headquarters. The level of confidentiality should be very good. Not to mention the regiment commander, many brigade commanders of the main force may not be able to get news in advance.

The leader standing in front of him knew about this two months ago, which was so shocking!

So when they hear this news, their faces change drastically.

Tang Yufeng first reacted, looking at Zhou Cheng with a calm face, he was very suspicious: "Captain, you didn't know that the Eighth Route Army would launch this large-scale attack war in the near future, otherwise how could such a coincidence happen?"

"As the two months you promised, the attack war began."

"Faced with the attack of hundreds of thousands of Eighth Route Army, the Japanese and puppet troops could only deal with it and would definitely not have the energy to pay attention to this negotiation again, so the crisis brought to us by this negotiation will naturally be resolved!

Chen Zhengyu also focused his attention on Zhou Cheng at the same moment.

If he had really known about this attack battle two months ago, it would have been amazing.

Of course, Zhou Cheng would not admit it and objected without hesitation: "How is this possible? You are too arrogant to me. I am not a god. How could you know the head of the headquarters' idea?"

"In order to keep it confidential, such a big action at the headquarters will definitely not be leaked in advance, so why would I tell me? And my level is there. Even if there are orders on this aspect, it would be good if I could get two or three days in advance. It would be impossible to get two months in advance so long!"

Tang Yufeng felt that Zhou Cheng was not telling the truth, and continued to ask: "Since you don't know about this, why did you promise us to resolve this negotiation in two months? It's too coincidental. Now two months have passed. Since your solution is not this attack battle, what is your solution?"
Chapter completed!