Not only the chief of staff couldn't understand this matter, but also the Major General Biancheng couldn't understand it.
But I still don’t understand that the Eighth Route Army operating outside Xiong County is real.
If they don't retreat quickly and the Eighth Route Army forms an encirclement outside the city, they won't be able to evacuate even if they want to.
Seeing that the chief of staff was still frowning and not moving, Major General Biancheng ordered again: "Why are you still standing there..."
"Do you really want to send reinforcements south and be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in Xiong County?"
"If you don't understand it now, think about it later."
"The top priority now is to leave here and protect the remaining soldiers of the reinforcement force heading south, otherwise we will never be able to complete the containment mission assigned to us by the Commander."
The chief of staff finally recovered from his confusion and quickly replied: "I am humble enough to give orders now."
"Bang bang bang..."
Three red flares representing retreat suddenly sounded over the south of the city.
The attacking Japanese and puppet troops couldn't understand why the commander issued this order.
With divine help, their attack went very smoothly. As long as they were given another half hour, they could reach the Eighth Route Army headquarters. However, in the midst of the attack, they received a retreat order, and everyone felt unwilling to do so.
However, the military orders were overwhelming. Faced with the retreat order personally issued by the brigade commander, Major General Biancheng, no matter how bold they were, they did not dare to disobey, so they could only turn around and retreat with their respective troops.
Huang Yu also saw three red flares launched by the Japanese army in the south of the city. There was less than an hour left before the total time agreed between him and the commander to regroup, and many participating troops were already in place.
There were little Japanese scouts outside the city, and the possibility of being exposed was very high. They immediately realized that the Japanese and puppet troops in the city were retreating freely.
"Deputy Chief of Staff, the sound of firefights coming from the front line seems to have weakened..." the commander of the fifth regiment reported at the same time with his brows furrowed, thinking that the Japanese and puppet offensive troops were up to some new conspiracy.
"The Japanese and puppet troops are trying to escape..." The fifth regiment commander's answer made Huang Yu more convinced of his judgment, and he returned to the map and began to issue orders.
"The flying thunder cannon immediately launched a counterattack. Each flying thunder cannon can carry two explosive packets. Use the fastest speed to fire out..."
"After the explosion, the entire army launched a counterattack against the retreating Japanese and puppet troops."
"Establish a contact with the commander..."
"The general offensive is ahead of schedule. After hearing the explosion in the city, all the encircling troops launched an attack on the current Japanese and puppet troops. The stronger the offensive, the better. We must encircle and annihilate all Japanese and puppet troops operating in Xiong County."
"The Japanese and puppet troops who have not yet reached the battlefield will speed up their march and join the battle as soon as they arrive on the battlefield without waiting for orders."
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On top of the south gate of Xiong County.
After the retreat order was issued, the brigade headquarters where Major General Biancheng was located also began to make final preparations for the retreat.
Several operational staff members quickly packed up documents and radios, and a group of guards rushed to the top of the city at the same time, trying to protect the major general from the border city and leave first.
"Rumble..."
Before the group of people left the city, a violent explosion sounded inside the city.
The Major General is all too familiar with this kind of explosion.
More than an hour ago, this kind of explosion instantly killed more than 2,000 reinforcements from the south.
During the attack just now, the Eighth Route Army did not use thunder cannons. The major general thought that the Eighth Route Army was out of ammunition.
Unexpectedly, this was all done intentionally by the Eighth Route Army.
It is not that they have no ammunition available, but they want to wait for the attacking troops to retreat before joining the battle. Faced with an artillery attack, if the retreating troops are not careful, they will become a weak force and be chased and beaten by the Eighth Route Army's counterattack troops.
Just after the two rounds of explosions ended, shouts of death from the Eighth Route Army rang out in the city.
The Major General of the Border City looked more solemn than before, and ordered as he withdrew: "The Eighth Route Army wants to keep our offensive troops in the city."
"We must not let their conspiracy succeed..."
"Let the troops retreat faster. If the Eighth Route Army catches up, remember that a strong man will cut off his wrist. You must not fight desperately with the Eighth Route Army's pursuers."
"They now want us to fight them desperately. Well, let's stay in the city and wait for reinforcements to enter the city and surround us."
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
But at this moment, the accident happened again.
The relocating heavy artillery position and the mountain field artillery position were attacked at the same time.
Major General Biancheng was completely worried.
The Yizhong Eighth Route Army is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness.
If the reinforcements sent south do not have a strong artillery unit to cooperate with them, no matter how many troops there are, they will be completely killed by the Eighth Route Army.
Immediately give the order: "The artillery troops are in danger on Bageya Road..."
"Everyone retreats to the artillery position, defeats the Eighth Route Army attacking the artillery position, and joins the heavy artillery brigade and the mountain artillery brigade..."
Little did they know that all this was a trap prepared by Kong Jie for them.
After deducting the battle losses, the Japanese and puppet troops were left with 7,000 reinforcements when they went south.
There are more than 3,000 people scattered in the city and have not yet been evacuated.
The artillery force has about a thousand men, and the total number of troops that the border town major general can mobilize immediately is less than 3,000 men.
Based on Kong Jie’s understanding of Huang Yu.
Even if the more than 3,000 Japanese puppet troops remaining in the city cannot be wiped out, they will definitely be able to suffer heavy losses.
As long as he concentrates his forces and kills the thousands of puppet troops outside the city, the southward reinforcements sent by Neji Okamura from Pingjin will be finished.
So we directly used the artillery position as bait to prepare a pocket formation for the Japanese and puppet troops to go south to reinforce the troops.
In order to facilitate the scattered march and avoid the Japs scouts and intelligence personnel, the three regiments brought by Kong Jie were not equipped with a single mountain gun or heavy artillery, but they brought more than sixty mortars.
These mortars were all lurking on the road to the Japanese reinforcement artillery positions.
Each gun fired thirty shells at the fastest speed. That's 1,800 shells. All of them hit the road where more than 3,000 Japanese and puppet troops gathered and exploded. Even if one shell only killed one Japanese and puppet
Army, these artillery shells can also kill nearly 2,000 Japanese puppet troops.
It will be easy to deal with the remaining thousands of Japanese and puppet troops.
Major General Biancheng didn't know about this conspiracy yet, and was leading his troops to attack the artillery units quickly. He didn't expect that the battle situation would take a turn for the worse. He had become a piece of fat on the lips of the Eighth Route Army, and they could eat it as they wanted.
"Boom boom boom..."
The artillery attack came very suddenly, and the Major General of the Border Town was also very lucky. Two artillery shells, one on the left and one on the right, hit right next to him.
Although the guard immediately pounced on Major General Biancheng, trying to use his body to block his bullets.
However, the explosion point of the shell was too close to the major general in Biancheng, and no matter how fast the guards responded, it could not match the flight speed of the shell fragments.
A total of four fragments penetrated Major General Biancheng's body. One fragment directly cut his carotid artery, killing him instantly. He was not able to even scream before he died.
The brigade commander was dead. Facing the rain of artillery shells falling from the sky, the Japanese and puppet troops could only fight on their own, moving to both sides of the road in an attempt to avoid the artillery fire.
But there were not only artillery troops on both sides of the road, but also two entire regiments of the Eighth Route Army ambushed.
