Boom——

The violent explosions were heard from the outside of the Huting stronghold to the stronghold headquarters, and reached the heart of the Japanese Major Furukawa, who was increasingly trembling with fear.

"Your Majesty, Major, something bad is going on. The Eighth Route Army is attacking fiercely from all directions. They even have weapons that can directly destroy our artillery towers.

Nearly half of the outer artillery towers of the stronghold have been demolished by the Eighth Route Army!"

"Nani?"

At this moment, Furukawa, who originally thought calmly that even now, with the help of the geographical location and defensive strength of the Huting stronghold, could still ensure a stable tiger halt, was completely panicked.

The turrets built extending from the stronghold to the outside are concrete turrets specially built to deal with the offensive artillery of the New Second Regiment.

Some even add some steel bars during pouring to construct a reinforced concrete structure.

On the one hand, these turrets provide excellent bunkers for machine gunners, and use elevated floors to create the highest firepower design point.

Stationing a certain amount of troops, with sufficient firepower, can completely withstand several or even dozens of times the enemy's attack.

There is nothing more suitable for defense than these dual-purpose turrets.

On the other hand, these turrets extend to the outside line, while ensuring that the wind and grass within a range of nearly 500 meters from the outside line are cleared and fired.

Be alert at any time to raids by Eighth Route Army troops.

In other words, these turrets also serve as guard towers.

Even a fly cannot easily fly into the Huting stronghold.

The Japanese troops in the stronghold will also have a much larger scope for collecting intelligence on the Huting stronghold.

This is also the reason why Li Yunlong devoted himself to demolishing the outer turrets of the Huting stronghold.

But now, even the Japanese concrete turrets are still destroyed by the Eighth Route Army's artillery.

In addition, the entire Huting stronghold has so far not been able to bring in even a drop of water from outside.

The soldiers of the New Second Regiment completely cut off the water supply line of the Japanese and puppet troops in the Huting stronghold.

Even the boreholes of some ancient wells on the outside where the Japanese could hold off on using water were directly blown up by the soldiers.

Furukawa, who was quite panicked, once again ordered the Communications Department to continue to contact the higher headquarters, hoping to receive reinforcements and relieve the crisis of the Huting stronghold being blocked by the Eighth Route Army.

The answer you can get is still: stick to the Hu Stop stronghold and wait for the situation to change!

Reinforcements?

It is impossible to have reinforcements now.

Kong Jie led a detachment and made a scene near the three cities of Yangquan, Shouyang and Tanxian, and the three-stage offensive was fully launched.

The little devil is so busy trying to maintain local security that he has no time to think about anything else.

Plus this winter has an end.

The rarely visited roads in the wild are also covered with snow.

After the Eighth Route Army units, mainly the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and the New Second Regiment, took advantage of the winter to carry out raids on various transportation lines of the Japanese army.

Even if the Japanese reinforcements want to reinforce the Huting stronghold, I'm afraid they can only walk step by step with their feet on the snow and the biting cold wind.

..."Sir, we still have to stick to the command's order!"

The Japanese communications soldier lowered his head and said with a bitter look on his face.

"Hold on, how long do you have to hold on?"

Furukawa asked angrily.

"It will take at least half a month until the heavy snow melts and our army's transportation lines are repaired!" Furukawa murmured.

"But these damn Tuba Road who have completely blocked the stronghold are eager to chew down the Huting stronghold right away. Can they wait half of it?"

The Huting stronghold has completely fallen into a water shortage crisis again...

Facing the Eighth Route Army's advance and attack on the Huting stronghold from four directions, Furuchuan sent reserve troops and artillery troops to reinforce respectively.

In the end, the two sides fought for nearly two hours.

As evening approached, Li Yunlong ordered the attacking soldiers to temporarily stop the attack and temporarily stationed not far from the outer line of the Huting stronghold for repairs.

More than half an hour later, looking at the completely dark sky and the dead silence around the entire stronghold, Furukawa breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that today's stronghold was saved.

He felt a little heavy, and the casualties and losses in today's battle were quickly counted.

The adjutant reported the specific situation to Furukawa: "Major, this battle was unfavorable. Our army suffered heavy losses. The entire Hidewa Squadron was wiped out, with a total of 153 people in pieces.

The cavalry troops, tank squads and subsequent reinforcements of mechanized combat troops suffered heavy casualties, with a total loss of 145 people.

In addition, in the next two hours, the losses suffered by the Eighth Route Army in the battles launched from four directions of our stronghold.

So far, our army has lost nearly 400 people!

In addition, more than 70% of the artillery towers built on the outer lines have been completely destroyed by the Eighth Route Army."

Furukawa was silent after listening to the report, and the number of employees was reduced by nearly 400.

And how many people are there in the entire Huting stronghold of the Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance Army?

Just over a thousand people.

This is equivalent to losing nearly half of the troops.

Coupled with the artillery towers destroyed by the Eighth Route Army on the outside, the entire Huting stronghold is already in danger.

Furukawa, who had a headache, looked at the pitch-black night, and for a moment he didn't know how long he could hold on to the Huting stronghold.

Who knows when the Eighth Route Army will launch its next attack?

What is the next attack method?

It is absolutely unrealistic to expect that this night will be extremely cold and completely freeze those Tuba roads to death.

Those damn Tubal Road fighting will is so tenacious that it’s frightening.

Helpless, Furukawa asked the Communications Department to contact the headquarters of the nearby Ping'an County for the last time, and expressed his determination in the communication:

I swear to live and die with the Huting stronghold, and break the jade to repay the emperor!

It was dawn the next day.

The Japanese Army Headquarters in Pingan County tried to send a reinforcement force in an attempt to reinforce the Huting stronghold. However, they were directly ambushed by the Eighth Route Army troops on the way, and they fled back to Pingan County in embarrassment.

After receiving the news, Furukawa became more and more desperate.

Time flies by.

"Sir, the soldiers have been without water for two days. I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on for much longer!"

"In addition, due to lack of water, many of our war horses are already in health problems!"

The Japanese officer in charge of logistics came to report.

Furukawa shouted: "After the water supply line of the stronghold was cut off by Tubal Road, didn't I ask you to collect the snow in the stronghold nearby as a short-term water supply?"

The logistics officer said helplessly: "Sir, Hu Pavilion is located on a high terrain and has sufficient sunshine. The snow has melted a lot. After we collected the remaining snow, we did not get much water."

At the end, the logistics officer even said with some shame: "Sir... some soldiers are so thirsty that they can't stand it anymore. They are even... even drinking horse urine!"

Humiliation, this is a great humiliation!

Furukawa clenched his fists in annoyance.

"Shui Shui..."

This usually inconspicuous military water supply has become the most troublesome problem at this moment. Even when he said these words, his mouth was so dry that he couldn't even secrete much saliva, and his lips had already been dry due to lightness.

Severe water shortage may cause dryness and cracking.

The terrain of the entire Huting stronghold is too high, and the water seepage is quite serious.

The soldiers even dug dozens of large pits in the stronghold, but there was only some underground soil that was occasionally moist, but no water.

The kid in the stronghold was so thirsty that he almost went crazy.

"What about our food? There is still some moisture in the food, so we can always hold on!" Furukawa asked again.

The logistics officer shook his head: "We have a lot of food in store, but most of it is rice and noodles. These things require water to cook.

As for some vegetables and fruits that contain enough water, they are not in large quantities and have already been eaten up!"

Furukawa was silent for a long time, then he waved his hand and said: "I know, you go ahead! I will think of another way."

"Hi!"

After the officer left, Furukawa was silent for a long time. He looked at the sky, which had remained unchanged for the past few days, and even looked forward to it in his heart.

"It would be great if it rained or even snowed!"

Unfortunately, there is little rain in northwestern Shanxi, and snowfall is not frequent.

It is simply unrealistic for this old devil to expect heavy snow or rain from the sky within three to five days.

God will probably not sympathize with the invaders.
To be continued...