Under the blockage of landmines, the Japanese assault speed significantly slowed down, and the distance between the national rescue troops was suddenly widened.

"The tunnel entrance is right in front. Everyone hurry up and enter the tunnel, and the Japanese are about to kill you!" A squad leader of the engineer company guarded the tunnel entrance and greeted with a very nervous expression.

"Start up, and the Japanese will catch up!" The National Salvation Army led the commander of the team to run in the team. While urging their subordinates to run faster, they also counted whether all the soldiers who were still alive in the army had arrived.

The deputy company commander, who was walking at the end, hurriedly caught up: "Company Commander, there are 64 people here, and all of them have withdrawn from the battle. The 21 wounded people who had withdrawn from the battle were sent to the command center by us. According to the plan, they will be the first to evacuate the county town through the tunnel."

The company breathed a sigh of relief: "That's fine, our family is still there!"

"The regiment commander said that he has prepared two thousand replenishment troops for us outside the city. As long as we withdraw from the county town safely and the backbone of the troops is still there, we can restore combat effectiveness in a few days!"

"Let everyone get faster. From now on, we can't lose another warrior!"

Outside Jinzhong City, the attack of the National Salvation Army continued, and the shells hit the city wall just like they don’t have money, causing the city to be fired.

Several main forces rushed out of the offensive position and acted like a strong attack on the city.

The heavy machine guns that provided fire cover shot at the city wall one after another, making bullets flying across the city wall, which looked particularly scary.

On the top of the city, every Japanese and puppet army was very nervous, holding guns and constantly shooting outside the city, for fear that the national rescue army would approach the city wall.

All the Japanese and puppet troops, including Major General Aso, felt that the National Rescue Army was attacking the county town and responding to the National Rescue Army in the city. They were also fighting with the idea of ​​defending the city walls. They did not expect that the National Rescue Army was bluffing.

There is an authentic tunnel behind each offensive position, and the wounded are constantly lifted out of it...

At 4:30 in the morning, the group leader Zhou Cheng drilled out of the tunnel entrance. Chen Zhengyu, who had been waiting at the tunnel entrance, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and asked anxiously.

"Captain, you have calculated how many troops there are behind?"

"Only the engineer company is left, and the receiving troops are notified. When the explosion in the center of the city is blowing, the troops will retreat immediately."

The engineer company had three soldiers guarding the tunnel entrance and finally retreated. As soon as the Japanese and puppet troops entered their sight, they began to retreat. After entering the tunnel for more than a hundred meters, they decisively suppressed the detonator.

"Boom..."

The violent explosion rang out in the center of the city like thunder, deafening.

The engineers took the tunnel entrance as the center, and thirty orange-red fireballs rose continuously within a radius of 30 meters.

The smoke of gunpowder and the thick smoke instantly enveloped the area. None of the Japanese and puppet troops who rushed into this area were spared and were all blown into minced meat.

As soon as the explosion sounded, the guns and cannons on the top of the city stopped, and the national rescue army outside the city seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and it was completely retreated in the blink of an eye.

Major General Aso immediately showed an expression of shock that was unknown.

According to his previous judgment, if the National Rescue Army outside the city wants to successfully support the National Rescue Army inside the city, it must break through the city defense fortifications.

But so far, I have not received any news that the city wall was broken by the National Salvation Army.

Under such circumstances, it is a fantasy that the National Rescue Army in the city successfully escaped from the Jinzhong County.

The National Rescue Army outside the city ended the battle and evacuated the battlefield at this time, which was no different from the National Rescue Army inside the city.

Could it be that the National Saving Army decided to give up the internal team after being unable to capture the city for a long time? Major General Aso suddenly had this bold idea in his mind.

"Boom..."

The explosion from the city instantly broke Major General Aso's dream. Looking at the orange-red fireball suddenly rising in the center of the city, Major General Aso seemed to understand a little.

Colonel Hamano's reaction was also very fast. When the explosion in the city sounded, he shouted excitedly: "General, I know why the National Rescue Army outside the city suddenly retreated!"

"The national rescue army in the city was over, and they couldn't hold on anymore, and they chose to die with our troops at the last moment, so the national rescue army that attacked our national rescue army suddenly withdrew!"

"Boom..." Another roaring explosion came from the center of the city, and the power of the explosion seemed to be even greater than before.

At this time, Major General Aso also felt that the remnants of the National Salvation Army in the city died together with his subordinates, and the solemn expression on his face was slowly replaced by a smile.

Zhou Cheng, the commander of the National Salvation Army, was still in the city. As long as he could be killed, it didn't matter that all the offensive troops he left in the city would be wiped out.

Immediately ordered: "Go to the city to investigate the situation and figure out what happened to the explosion just now!"

"If the remnants of the National Salvation Army died together with our troops, we must find Zhou Cheng, the commander of the National Salvation Army. Sheng wants to see people and dies to see the corpse!"

Colonel Hamano quickly took the order: "General, don't worry, Zhou Cheng is the life-and-death enemy of the Japanese Empire. Even if he is blown into pieces, Hu Zhi will find him!"

But this task was not as simple as Colonel Hamano thought.

In order to find Zhou Cheng, Colonel Hamano personally rushed to the explosion area. At a glance, the entire explosion area was covered with nearly a hundred craters with depths of more than two meters. The houses, yards, and ruins around the craters were all razed to the ground...

As for the corpses, even the ruins of the battlefield were blown into bricks, not to mention the soldiers with flesh and blood.

After glanced over, he saw that the battlefield was full of the Japanese's broken limbs, broken arms and minced meat. Colonel Hamano led his subordinates to search for more than ten minutes but failed to get a body.

"Bageyalu, you are all wastes, you can't even find a corpse!" The bodies could not be collected, and Zhou Cheng would definitely not be found. Colonel Hamano could only vent his anger on his subordinates.

The officers standing in front of Hamano were very depressed, but they didn't dare to say a word.

It was not until Colonel Hamano was tired that a lieutenant mustered up the courage to report: "The chief is not a humble position, it is because the explosion just now is too thorough!"

"I guess every crater here has no less than ten kilograms of explosives buried, with a lethality of more than thirty meters. People and things within ten meters will be blown into minced meat, and none of them will be spared. There is a crater every five meters in this explosion area. Such a dense explosion point is enough to blow all soldiers into minced meat."

"Even if we find the broken limbs and arms, we cannot tell whether they belong to the National Savior Army or our own people."

"Beizhi investigated three explosion areas, and each explosion area was the same. It can be seen that when the National Salvation Army decided to defend Jinzhong, it was planned to die with us in the city, otherwise they would not have been able to arrange so many explosives in hasty!"

Colonel Hamano thought about the order: "Since Zhou Cheng's body cannot be found, can you tell how many corpses are in this explosion area?"

"No less than one hundred, or two hundred, or even three hundred!"

"The battlefield was bombed so fiercely. If someone happened to stand next to the explosives, they would definitely be destroyed, so many soldiers could not even keep the meat!"

Colonel Hamano continued to ask: "That is to say, if Zhou Cheng, the commander of the National Salvation Army, had just stayed in this explosion area, he would have been blown into minced meat!"

"Hayi!" The lieutenant replied very affirmatively: "It is possible that he will be blown to ashes, and not even a piece of minced meat is left behind!"

"Forget..." After hearing the explanation from his subordinates, he looked at the broken limbs, broken arms and minced meat that could not even fit the body at his feet. Colonel Hamano could only sigh and head straight to the command center.

"General, Bei Shi has not completed his mission. The battlefield was bombed too thoroughly, and there is not even a body. He can't tell the enemy at all, let alone find Zhou Cheng's body. Please calm down!" Colonel Hamano looked embarrassed to report after finding Major General Aso.

"Nani?" Major General Aso was obviously dissatisfied with the result.

If the National Salvation Army is a major concern of the Imperial Army, then Zhou Cheng is the number one enemy of the Imperial Army. He wants to see people in his life and corpses in his life.

Now that he has not even found his body, even if he is sure that he was killed in the explosion just now, Major General Aso dares not report to the above.

Colonel Hamano saw Major General Aso's concerns and quickly explained: "Please rest assured, as long as Zhou Cheng was still in the city when the explosion just now, he would undoubtedly die. He would either be blown into minced meat or destroyed to ashes. There is absolutely no possibility of survival. Please rest assured!"

In the eyes of Major General Aso, Zhou Cheng was too cunning. He would never believe that he was dead unless he saw his body.

Facing Colonel Hamano's gaze, he asked with a suspicion: "Do you dare to use your head to guarantee it?"

"This!" Colonel Hamano hesitated and answered after a while.

"General, Zhou Cheng may not be dead!"

"The county town of Jinzhong is too big, and the city is destroyed by war. It's too easy to hide a few people."

"It is not ruled out that the National Salvation Army made us mistakenly believe that Zhou Cheng had died with us by detonating explosives, but in fact he hid in a certain position on the battlefield. When the battle ended, we relaxed our vigilance and escaped from Jinzhong County while the chaos!"

Major General Aso nodded: "It is indeed possible."

"But as long as Zhou Cheng is still in Jinzhong County, he will never escape no matter whether he is alive or dead."

After saying that, he looked at Colonel Hamano and continued to ask: "How many troops did we lose in the firefighting and explosion just now?"

"More than a thousand people, the specific losses are still under statistics!" Colonel Hamano replied with his head down.

"Baga!" Major General Aso was so angry that he cursed again, and he had the idea of ​​killing people.

With the losses during the day, he had already paid a huge price of more than 7,000 people to capture Jinzhong, most of which were the Imperial Army.

The National Salvation Army that defended Jinzhong was only 4,000 people. If it were not counted as the Imperial Army, it would be too expensive to kill one National Salvation Army.

You should know that this time the attack on the National Salvation Army, the real main force of the Imperial Army was only one brigade and two infantry regiments, and less than seven thousand infantrymen.

Now, the attack on Jinzhong alone has lost more than 4,000 infantry, and less than 3,000 infantry are left. We will definitely not be able to continue to attack the defense zone of the National Rescue Army.

Moreover, it is not clear whether Zhou Cheng has been beaten to death by himself. Before finding the evidence, he has drawn heavy troops to defend Jinzhong and defended Jinzhong to the death. He is not allowed to leave Jinzhong alone until the troops can confirm that there is no living national-savior army in the city.

This means that the remaining troops in his hands cannot leave Jinzhong for a long time, and they will definitely not be able to attack the National Rescue Military Defense Zone immediately.

But soldiers are very fast. Regardless of whether Zhou Cheng, the commander of the National Salvation Army, is alive, he is now in Jinzhong City.

The remaining troops in the National Salvation Military Defense Zone must be in a situation where there are no leaders.

The Imperial Army entered their defense zone at this time and attacked the remaining National Savior Army. It would definitely catch them off guard, hurt them severely or wipe them out.

But now I have no troops in my hands. If I want to continue to attack the national defense zone, I can only ask for help from the military headquarters. It is too embarrassing.

When I received the order, I issued a military order to the military headquarters.

With more than 15,000 troops in his hands, he first regained Jinzhong and killed Zhou Cheng, and then took the opportunity to enter the National Rescue Army defense zone and killed the National Rescue Army.

Now that Jinzhong has just taken over, he has asked the military headquarters for help, which not only means that the military order he has made to the military headquarters has become a joke, but he may also receive punishment from the military headquarters.

But now that things have come to this point, he has no choice.

In order to kill the National Salvation Army, it will not affect the combat plan of the military headquarters. Even if the military headquarters takes away the position of the commander of its brigade, it is still necessary to ask for assistance.

Taking a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the anger that was coming out of my heart, and a solemn command was ordered: "You immediately sort out the remaining troops in the city and reduce all our remaining troops into three infantry brigades!"

"The cavalry brigade, an infantry brigade, an imperial army and a regiment, divided troops to defend the city."

"From now on, no one except the Imperial Army can leave Jinzhong County."
To be continued...