Chapter 543: The sky is not responding, the earth is not working (first update)
"Guard Company, Special Agent Company, First Company, Artillery Company, assemble and stand by immediately..." Huang Yu ordered while looking at the map.
"Immediately contact the third battalion commander Huang Yong and ask him to lead the guard platoon, fire company, and seventh company to reinforce Li Zhuang immediately. The faster the better!"
"Captain..." The telephone soldier on the side suddenly put down the phone and reported.
"Commander Wei of the Second Battalion reported: There are more than 3,000 enemies who have invaded our base area. They are all little Japs. There are no puppet troops to cooperate with the battle. They are equipped with more than ten mountain and field guns. The offensive is very fierce. He is leading the troops to defend Lizhuang.
, slow down the Japanese attack speed!"
"Hiss... Where did the Baoding Japs come from with so many troops..." Huang Yu gasped and shouted.
"I remember there were at most four thousand little Japs there, and more than three thousand people were sent to attack us at once. Doesn't he want Baoding City anymore?"
Wang Lin shook his head and analyzed with furrowed brows: "Captain..."
"We have not received any relevant information before, indicating that this is a long-planned action by the little devils, who clearly want to catch us off guard!"
"Thankfully you left a veteran company in each battalion before, and the limited equipment was concentrated on the veteran company, otherwise we wouldn't even have the troops to spare!"
"The Japanese are coming fiercely. Wei Dayong only has one reinforced company in hand, and the Li Zhuang blocking position has not been repaired yet. He will definitely not be able to hold on for long!"
"After Lizhuang's defense line is breached, the Japanese will be able to march straight into our base area!"
"Then our losses will be great!"
Huang Yu replied with a stern face: "It's a trivial matter to lose the base outside the mountain. What I'm most worried about is that after the Japs break through our defense line, they will continue to attack and take the opportunity to enter the mountain and threaten the safety of the main force of the regiment."
"They are undergoing large-scale training in the mountains and cannot join the war immediately!"
"If the Japanese attack us now, the main force of the regiment will also suffer heavy losses!"
"We must do everything we can to drag them back to Shunping, and it's best to repel them!"
After saying that, he frowned and fell into deep thought. After thinking for two minutes, he suddenly ordered: "Operator, send a telegram to the regiment headquarters immediately: The Baoding Japanese army has sent out heavy troops to attack us and has entered the garrison base area!"
"Please ask the main force of the regiment to immediately dispatch the field artillery battalion, the cavalry company, and the three battalion-directed artillery companies to reinforce us..."
"Try to get to Pingyang Town before one o'clock tonight and be on standby!"
"Contact Wei Dayong again... rely on the favorable terrain of Lizhuang to defend for three hours, then abandon the position, block every layer, and lead the little Japs to Pingyang Town..."
"We will fight the Japanese in Pingyang Town!"
"Inform Huang Yong that the order to reinforce Li Zhuang has been cancelled. Immediately lead a team to reinforce Pingyang Town!"
At the Duer Regiment Headquarters, Kong Jie was preparing to go to the training ground after breakfast as usual.
As a result, before he even left the yard, the radio operator shouted from behind him: "Commander, Deputy Chief of Staff Huang is calling urgently... Something happened in the base outside the mountain..."
"Baoding dispatched more than 3,000 Japs to attack us. They have reached Lizhuang and are fighting with the Second Battalion of the Defense Regiment. The offensive is very fierce!"
"Say it again: How many little Japs did Baoding send to attack us?" Kong Jie stood there, staring at the operator with disbelief and asked.
"More than three thousand people...all are little Japs, not a single puppet soldier!" the radio operator hurriedly replied.
"How is this possible?" Kong Jie asked, still looking unbelieving.
"There are at most 4,000 Japs left in Baoding. Where did they mobilize more than 3,000 Japs to attack us..."
Chief of Staff Liu Sen came upon hearing this and asked, "Could it be that Deputy Chief of Staff Huang made a mistake?"
"We have our own people in Baoding City. The Japanese have sent out so many troops. It's impossible for them not to receive any news."
"But we didn't receive any relevant information!"
Kong Jie also became confused.
It is impossible for Huang Yu to send out false information without any target to scare everyone.
What Chief of Staff Liu Sen said makes sense. There are more than 3,000 Japs, not a few hundred. No matter how hidden they are, they cannot escape the eyes of intelligence agents in the city.
The regiment did not receive any relevant information, indicating that the Baoding intelligence officer did not know about this unit.
This was so strange that Kong Jie couldn't tell whether it was true or false.
The radio operator continued to report: "Deputy Chief of Staff Huang asked the regiment headquarters to immediately mobilize the field artillery battalion, the cavalry company, and the three battalions directly under the artillery company to reinforce Pingyang Town after dark. We must get there before dawn!"
Unless absolutely necessary, Huang Yu would definitely not ask for help from the regiment headquarters.
Now that he wants to leave all the artillerymen in the regiment, it must be something serious for the garrison regiment.
Then he chose to believe Huang Yu, and when he returned to the war room, he began to issue orders: "The field artillery battalion, the three battalions are directly under the artillery company, the cavalry company, the guard company... assemble and stand by immediately, and be ready to go!"
"Chief of Staff, contact our intelligence personnel lurking in Baoding City immediately to find out where the more than 3,000 Japanese troops who invaded our base came from!"
"The Japanese are attacking us now, and they definitely want to catch us by surprise!"
"It cannot be ruled out that they deliberately concealed the information in order to achieve the purpose of the raid!"
Before Liu Sen could move, he saw the officer in charge of intelligence collection running toward him in a hurry: "Report to the chief of staff, the regimental commander... An urgent intelligence message has just been sent back from Baoding City!"
"The Japanese sent more than 3,000 people out of the city in the middle of the night last night, with an unknown destination..."
"After the troops left the city, the Japanese closed the city gate again and did not open it until dawn. Only then could this intelligence have a chance to be sent out of Baoding!"
"Investigation confirmed that more than half of the Japs in the troops leaving the city came from surrounding counties. They were secretly transferred to Baoding one squadron after another by the Japanese army!"
"I understand!" Kong Jie said with a look of sudden realization.
"In order to catch us off guard, the Japanese troops in Baoding deliberately left the city in the middle of the night. By the time we received the information, the troops had already entered Junping. We didn't even have time to prepare!"
"In the past, we were the ones who caught them by surprise and caught them off guard!"
"I didn't expect that the little devil would apply what he has learned and retaliate in kind!"
"It seems that we all underestimated the determination and courage of the Baoding Japs to retaliate against us!"
"Xiao Huang asked for artillery by name, not other troops...it means he has already thought of a way to break the situation!"
"Chief of Staff, we still follow the old rules..."
"You stay in the base area and continue to expand the army and train... I will bring artillery to reinforce Xiao Huang and have a good meeting with the Japanese attacking troops!"
At the Lizhuang position, the Japanese army had successfully captured the forward position of the Second Battalion. Just as they had just attacked the forward position, they massed artillery fire to blast the main position of the Second Battalion, first razing it to the ground, and then taking it down with another assault.
Wei Dayong led his troops to hide deep in the tunnel. Listening to the rumbling cannons above his head, he felt nervous and weak. He was afraid that the tunnel would not be able to hold up and bury everyone underground. That would mean that the sky would not respond and the earth would not respond.
It works!"
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