The brigade commander took away nearly 70% of the troops of the mixed brigade. In case of an accident, the mixed brigade will be finished.

The Chief of Staff became more and more anxious and was about to send more scouts out of the city. When the Communications Staff suddenly ran closer, looking at him with a nervous report: "Chief of Staff, the headquarters sent an urgent telegram: Let us send another reinforcement brigade to reinforce the coal mine, bring a high-power radio station, and send more scouts when marching. After joining the brigade commander, they immediately report their latest situation to the headquarters, and then continue to reinforce the coal mine! If the subsequent reinforcements find danger on the road, retreat immediately, and you must not be dragged on the battlefield by the enemy!"

"Is it really a problem with the radio station brought by the brigade commander, so he couldn't contact us?" The Chief of Staff analyzed after listening to the report.

A combat staff member next to him suddenly spoke: "Chief of Staff, I also think there is something wrong with the radio station carried by the brigade commander!"

"The brigade commander brought more than 4,000 people to reinforce the coal mine and a large number of artillery. Even if he was ambushed on the road, he could hold on to the rescue. He would last for several days and would never have an accident."

"The order just now was sent to us by the headquarters. If something happened to the brigade commander, we would send a brigade to the place and kill him in vain."

"So the command must have contacted the brigade commander through other channels, so we were asked to send troops to bring radio stations to reinforce the brigade commander!"

"If you feel uneasy, just send a telegram to the headquarters and ask clearly!"

The Chief of Staff is just a colonel, and to some extent, his status is not as good as that of a main corps. The commander stationed in Shimen is a division commander and ranks of lieutenant general, several levels higher than himself.

In the Japanese army with a particularly strict status quo, no matter how bold the Chief of Staff is, he dare not go beyond the level to question the judgment of his superiors.

He immediately ordered the staff officer: "No matter what channel the command contacts the brigade commander, they will not joke about the lives of more than a thousand soldiers!"

"So the safety of subsequent reinforcements is definitely no problem! All we need to do is trust the headquarters and strictly implement the orders of superiors!"

Speaking of this, the Chief of Staff had not said one thing, that is: "If something happens to the subsequent reinforcements, he will also be ordered to act. If the headquarters really wants to hold him accountable, he will not be able to implicate him as the executor."

Looking at the map, I thought for a while and started to give orders: "The Fifth Infantry Battalion, the Second Mountain Cannon Squadron, the Second Bag Team of the Bag Team, the Second Engineer Team, and the Second Communications Detachment of the Brigade Command, immediately set out to reinforce the coal mine."

In less than twenty minutes, more than 1,300 Japanese devils completed the assembly and broke out of Jingxing County.

They strictly followed the orders, and in addition to embracing the main force of the regiment, they also sent two entire infantry squads to investigate and advance in front of the team and on both wings.

After leaving the city for five kilometers, the entire team encountered no danger and did not even see the shadow of the enemy.

Among the mighty reinforcements, the adjutant walked beside the captain. Looking at the slowly marching team beside him, he couldn't help complaining: "Captain, Bei Zhi thinks that the Chief of Staff is too cautious. The main enemy forces are attacking the coal mines and blocking the brigade commander. He will definitely not be able to distribute the extra troops to attack us!"

"We have sent so many troops to investigate the surroundings, which is too time-consuming!"

"If we meet the brigade commander too late, miss the fighter plane, or delay the time to reinforce the brigade commander and the coal mine, causing them to fall into crisis, the brigade commander will definitely hold us accountable!"

Everyone knows the principle that soldiers are so powerful that they are very fast, especially in this kind of thing that can be reinforced by 100,000 people.

The captain was also very anxious and wanted to fly all the way to the brigade commander.

But the Chief of Staff’s order to strengthen vigilance must also be implemented. If the troops are ambushed by the enemy because they are not strengthened vigilance, as the captain, he will definitely be guilty of being blamed.

Just as he was hesitating about how to find a balance between the two, a heavy machine gun fire suddenly came from the location of the forward reconnaissance force.

The adjutant turned red as soon as he heard this.

Just now, he was complaining to the captain that the troops were walking too slowly and the chief of staff was too cautious. There would definitely be no enemy attacks along the way. As a result, in less than two minutes, the enemy slapped him with a heavy machine gun.

In order to save face, he immediately blamed the gunshots in front as accidents and asked loudly for battle: "Captain, the vanguard troops were mostly attacked by small enemy troops. I will take a squadron over and take a look, try to defeat them quickly and continue to reinforce the coal mines!"

The sudden gunfire also made the captain frown into a big Sichuan character. He thought of another explanation from the chief of staff before setting off, and looked at his deputy and replied with a hesitation: "I also want to defeat the enemy who attacked us and continue to reinforce the coal mine!"

"But the Chief of Staff requires us to retreat immediately after encountering danger on the road to reinforce the coal mines, and we must never be dragged on the battlefield by the enemy!"

"If we do not retreat now and instead send troops to support the vanguard troops, what's the difference between it and disobeying military orders!"

The adjutant also wanted to save his face by defeating the enemy. Of course, he didn't want to withdraw back to the county town in such a dilemma. He immediately replied: "Captain, Beizhi thinks sending troops to reinforce the vanguard troops is not considered disobeying the military order!"

"His Chief of Staff asked us to retreat immediately after encountering danger on the march road, but we are not in danger now, we are just encountering small groups of enemy sneak attack troops!"

"If there are few enemies attacking the vanguard troops, but the troops retreat. When the matter is spread, our brigade will definitely become a laughing stock. Please think twice!"

"Weizhi thinks that at least we should take people to the battlefield to see it. It will not be too late to retreat after understanding the enemy situation. If we retreat when we hear gunfire, it would be too embarrassing!"

The captain is also a person who wants to save face.

The snail-like marching speed made him feel embarrassed. If he didn't even see the enemy's shadow and retreated when he heard the gunshots, his colleagues would definitely put the hat of the turtle on his head.

The shame and anger from the heart made the captain become firm at once, and the idea of ​​retreating immediately disappeared from his mind at this moment. He looked at the adjutant very decisively.

"You immediately bring a squadron to reinforce the vanguard's troops and understand the enemy situation. If there are not many enemies, we must eliminate them resolutely. If there are many enemies, we must immediately respond to the vanguard's troops to evacuate the battle."

"I command the main force to stand by here, and decide whether to retreat based on the news you sent back!"

The adjutant felt that his chance to save face had come, so he rushed to the front of the team's infantry squadron...

"Dongdongdongdong..."

Two heavy machine guns were shooting in front of the Japanese vanguard.

More than a dozen Japanese died, and less than forty Japanese were suppressed on the battlefield.

They were very powerful. Every soldier found a hiding bunker, rifle, light machine gun, and grenade launcher in a very short time. He set up all of them and fought back desperately at the locations of the two heavy machine guns.

"Boom..."

Two grenades hit a heavy machine gun and exploded. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers were ready to jump from the ground to launch an attack.

In their eyes, once the grenade launcher troops take action, the light and heavy machine guns equipped by the Chinese army will be blown into scrap iron.

But this time the situation seemed a bit beyond the expectations of the Japanese.

The dull strafing sound of the heavy machine gun did not stop because of the explosion. Two too impulsive soldiers were beaten into sieve as soon as they got up from the ground.

The Japanese team leader was confused and didn't understand why the heavy machine guns equipped by the opponent were so powerful. No matter whether they were piercing machine guns or grenade launchers, they could not do anything to them.

Seeing that his subordinates were constantly being beaten to death, the idea of ​​evacuating here slowly emerged from his mind.

At this moment, the adjutant rushed over with a reinforcement squadron.

The squad leader of the vanguard team seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and immediately reported, "Sir, the enemy's heavy machine gun position is too mysterious, our grenade launchers and machine guns cannot be suppressed, nor can they be destroyed!"

After the adjutant was anxious to defeat the opponent, he confirmed that the opponent only had two heavy machine guns and no other heavy weapons, and even the troops were scarce, he did not think much about it and directly started to give orders: "Don't worry, I brought two mortars here!"

"The power of the mortar is several times greater than that of the grenade launcher, and it will definitely destroy the enemy's heavy machine gun positions!"

"Heavy machine gun team covers, mortar team shoots, kill the enemy's heavy machine gun positions immediately!"

The adjutant was full of confidence in his offensive orders and felt that all problems could be solved with the mortar attack, which was also the experience he had accumulated on other battlefields.

"Boom..."

When more than a dozen gunners quickly set up guns, a huge roar suddenly came from the two heavy machine gun positions in front of them.

The adjutant was stunned and the two flames shot out of the heavy machine gun actually started to move. Several beams of headlights followed them. The two heavy machine guns that were aimlessly fired suddenly had targets. The bullets were fired with the headlights. As long as the Japanese were illuminated by the headlights, bullets would fly over to reap their lives.

"Tan...tank...the one who was shooting at us just now was a heavy machine gun!" The forward squad leader was stunned. Seeing two tanks shooting quickly coming towards everyone, he was so scared that he couldn't speak smoothly.

"Many chariots... sir, the enemy attacking us is equipped with at least ten chariots!" The squadron leader hiding on the other side of the adjutant was also shocked and suppressed his fear in his heart.

"Baga...ah..."

A few screams rang a few meters away. The appearance of the headlights made the heavy machine gun on the car feel as if it were so powerful. The shooting accuracy was greatly improved. A series of bullets quickly swept through the adjutant, and the three soldiers lying behind were beaten to scream on the spot.

The adjutant was suddenly awakened. Seeing more and more tanks and armored vehicles coming towards him in front of him, he quickly ordered: "The troops retreat immediately, and immediately join the captain to retreat to the county town together!"

"The enemy has chariot troops, so if we fight in field battles, we have no chance of winning at all."

Before the order was finished, the anxious adjutant took the lead in retreating, and his reaction speed was no less than that of the monkey.

Major General Nakamoto, who had already died in battle, was the brigade commander and had very rich combat experience. Although the adjutant was a captain, he had never even been a squadron leader and had very little combat experience.

After learning that he was attacked by the chariot troops, Major General Nakamoto issued a retreat order as soon as possible, he thought on the spot that the infantry could not beat the tracks of the chariot on both legs, and then made two decisions: division of troops to block the chariot and division of troops to break through.

If it weren't for Zhou Cheng's arrangements for the Independent Battalion and the Pacification Guards to surround the battlefield in advance, there would definitely be many Japanese who could get rid of the chariots and escape from the battlefield.

The adjutant was now thinking about escaping his life. As for whether his legs could run over the chariot, it was completely out of his mind, so he did not have the idea of ​​oversoldiers in his mind to block the chariot troops.

"Boom..."

The roar of the chariots is getting louder, which means that more and more chariots are put into battle, and it also means that the chariots that are chasing them are getting closer and closer.

The adjutant ran forward desperately, but the number of heavy machine guns involved in the battle was also increasing. He was targeted by a heavy machine gun after running less than fifty meters...

Bullets roared, and three heavy machine gun bullets easily passed by their chests. Because the bullets were too powerful, the entire upper body was almost broken.

The strengthening squadron also suffered more than half of the casualties in the pursuit just now, and dozens of Japanese soldiers continued to escape in the direction of the main force.

The Japanese captain looked forward to it, but did not wait for good news that the adjutant would defeat the enemy.

Hearing the gunshots in front of him getting closer and closer, and the roars came over, he immediately realized that the enemy who was attacking him had chariots.

"Retreat, the front team becomes the back team, the back team becomes the front team, and immediately retreat to the county town. The enemy is raiding us with chariots. Only when we return to the county town can we block them!" The captain was ready to slip away when he saw that the situation was not good, and even cursed the adjutant in his heart.

If he hadn't advised himself to stay here to explore the enemy's weaknesses and reality for the sake of face, he would have retreated ten minutes ago and would not have stayed here and waited for the enemy to come here.

"Captain, the enemy's chariot troops have come here. At least one squadron's chariot, and the rear team has begun to suffer casualties!" The captain turned around and ran less than a hundred meters, and the report from his subordinates came from behind him.

The captain raised his eyebrows and figured out the key: "The speed of the chariot is too fast, we will definitely not be able to escape them with our legs!"

"We must find a way to stop them, at least we must make them run a little slower. Otherwise, we will be killed before we retreat to the county town."

"The artillery troops and the baggage team left behind the hall, and the baggage team blocked the big truck on the road, slowing down the attack speed of the tanks!"

"The artillery team immediately fired fire at the enemy's chariot troops. If they could destroy one, they would destroy one, and slow down their pursuit speed at all costs!"

After giving the order, the captain continued to join the retreating army, and the speed of running away was no slower than that of ordinary soldiers.

Within two minutes, a few cannons rang behind him.

The captain couldn't help but sigh.

He was very confident in his artillery, and he would not be empty as long as he fired the artillery.

No matter how bad luck is, the enemy's pursuers can be shocked and give yourself a chance to breathe.

But the good luck tonight was not on his side.

The artillery unit, which he had high hopes, was silent after only four rounds of shells. Before he could turn around, the report from the messenger reached his ears again: "Report to the captain, the enemy tanks bypassed the obstacles arranged by the baggage team on the road, captured the artillery position with just one raid, and continued to chase the main force..."

"We also found a large number of cavalry behind the chariot troops, and cooperated with the chariot troops to chase us..."
Chapter completed!